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</div><div>1851 Center for Constitutional Law is a right-wing 501(c)3 nonprofit legal center based out of Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 2008 as a spin-off of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Buckeye_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Buckeye Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Buckeye Institute</a>, the 1851 Center is an associate member of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">State Policy Network</a> (SPN).<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-1" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">1]</a>According to the 1851 Center's website, the organization is "dedicated to protecting the constitutional rights of Ohioans from government abuse. The 1851 Center litigates constitutional issues related to property rights, voting rights, regulation, taxation, and search and seizures."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a> It has filed lawsuits challenging project labor agreements, prevailing wage rates, campaign finance limits and disclosure laws, health care expansion and smoking bans.
<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#Ties_to_the_Koch_Brothers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ties to the Koch Brothers</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#State_Policy_Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2State Policy Network</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#Ties_to_Big_Tobacco" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Ties to Big Tobacco</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Funding</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#Core_Financials" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Core Financials</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#Personnel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Personnel</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#Staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.1Staff</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#Board_of_Directors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.2Board of Directors</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#Contact_Information" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7Contact Information</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#Articles_and_Resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8Articles and Resources</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#IRS_Form_990_Filings" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8.1IRS Form 990 Filings</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9References</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Ties to the Koch Brothers</h2>The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law is listed as a partner organization of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_Koch_Institute.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Koch Institute. (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Charles Koch Institute.</a><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a>The Center's parent organization, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Buckeye_Institute" title="The Buckeye Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">The Buckeye Institute</a> received $28,281 from the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_G.Koch_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles G. Koch Foundation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Charles G. Koch Foundation</a> between 2007 and 2009, and received $10,000 from the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Claude_R.Lambe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Claude R. Lambe (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Claude R. Lambe</a> Foundation in 2005.<table style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><tbody><tr><th style="background: rgb(222, 21, 13); border: 1px solid rgb(198, 19, 12); text-align: left; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Koch Wiki</th></tr><tr><td style=""><div style="padding: 2px 5px;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_G._Koch" title="Charles G. Koch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charles Koch</a> is the right-wing billionaire owner of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Koch Industries</a>. As one of the richest people in the world, he is a key funder of the right-wing infrastructure, including the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC) and the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Policy Network</a> (SPN). In SourceWatch, key articles on Charles Koch and his late brother David include: <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Brothers" title="Koch Brothers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Koch Brothers</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Americans for Prosperity</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stand_Together_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="Stand Together Chamber of Commerce" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stand Together Chamber of Commerce</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stand_Together" title="Stand Together" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stand Together</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Family_Foundations" title="Koch Family Foundations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Koch Family Foundations</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Universities" title="Koch Universities" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Koch Universities</a>, and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=I360" title="I360" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">I360</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">State Policy Network</h2>1851 Center is an associate member of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">State Policy Network</a> (SPN). <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">SPN</a> is a web of right-wing “think tanks” and tax-exempt organizations in 50 states, Washington, D.C., Canada, and the United Kingdom. As of August 2020, SPN's membership totals 162. Today's SPN is the tip of the spear of far-right, nationally funded policy agenda in the states that undergirds extremists in the Republican Party. SPN Executive Director <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tracie_Sharp" title="Tracie Sharp" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Tracie Sharp</a> told the Wall Street Journal in 2017 that the revenue of the combined groups was some $80 million, but a 2019 analysis of SPN's main members IRS filings by the Center for Media and Democracy shows that the combined revenue is over $120 million.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> Although SPN's member organizations claim to be nonpartisan and independent, the Center for Media and Democracy's in-depth investigation, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/2/25/SPN_National_Report_FINAL.pdf" style="background-image: url(" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" https="https" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">EXPOSED: The State Policy Network -- The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government</a>," reveals that SPN and its member think tanks are major drivers of the right-wing, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_Ties_to_ALEC" title="SPN Ties to ALEC" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC)-backed corporate agenda in state houses nationwide, with deep ties to the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Koch brothers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Koch brothers</a> and the national right-wing network of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_Funding" title="SPN Funding" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">funders</a>.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a>In response to CMD's report, SPN Executive Director <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tracie_Sharp" title="Tracie Sharp" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Tracie Sharp</a> told national and statehouse reporters that SPN affiliates are "fiercely independent." Later the same week, however, The New Yorker's <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jane_Mayer" title="Jane Mayer" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jane Mayer</a> caught Sharp in a contradiction. In her article, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/11/is-ikea-the-new-model-for-the-conservative-movement.html" style="background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?</a>," the Pulitzer-nominated reporter revealed that, in a recent meeting behind closed doors with the heads of SPN affiliates around the country, Sharp "compared the organization’s model to that of the giant global chain IKEA." She reportedly said that SPN "would provide 'the raw materials,' along with the 'services' needed to assemble the products. Rather than acting like passive customers who buy finished products, she wanted each state group to show the enterprise and creativity needed to assemble the parts in their home states. 'Pick what you need,' she said, 'and customize it for what works best for you.'" Not only that, but Sharp "also acknowledged privately to the members that the organization's often anonymous donors frequently shape the agenda. 'The grants are driven by donor intent,' she told the gathered think-tank heads. She added that, often, 'the donors have a very specific idea of what they want to happen.'"<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a>A set of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/842271-spn-budget-proposals-state-by-state.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">coordinated fundraising proposals</a> obtained and released by <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Guardian" title="The Guardian" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Guardian</a> in early December 2013 confirm many of these SPN members' intent to change state laws and policies, referring to "advancing model legislation" and "candidate briefings." These activities "arguably cross the line into lobbying," The Guardian notes.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Ties to Big Tobacco</h2>The 1851 Center's parent organization, the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Buckeye_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Buckeye Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Buckeye Institute</a> (BIPPS) received at least $60,000 in funding from <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_Morris" class="mw-redirect" title="Philip Morris" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Philip Morris</a> and other tobacco corporations in the 1990s, according to documents in the Tobacco Library -- previously secret papers unveiled as a result of government lawsuits -- analyzed by Progress Now and the Center for Media and Democracy, publishers of SourceWatch. According to the report, "The Buckeye Institute was considered an 'allied' organization, a resource to be used in building coalitions and advancing [the tobacco industry's] corporate interests."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-report-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> Such comprehensive documents are not available from more recent years, but <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Altria" class="mw-redirect" title="Altria" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Altria</a> funding documents show that Big Tobacco is still funding BIPPS as recently as 2012 and 2009, although the amounts are not known.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a>In exchange, the "Buckeye Institute has compiled a record of supporting the issues important to its Big Tobacco funders," the report notes, and details many instances of this support.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-report-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> The tobacco industry also funds BIPPS' parent group, SPN.1851's executive director, Maurice Thompson, led legal efforts against Ohio’s public smoking ban, representing the bar that challenged the smoking ban in front of the Ohio Supreme Court.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Funding</h2>The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law is not required to disclose its funders. Its major foundation funders, however, can be found through a search of the IRS filings.<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_for_Self-Governance" title="Citizens for Self-Governance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Citizens for Self-Governance</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_for_Self-Governance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">$14,000</a> (2011-2012)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Donors_Capital_Fund" title="Donors Capital Fund" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donors Capital Fund</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=DonorsTrust_and_Donors_Capital_Fund_Grant_Recipients" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">$185,000</a> (2010-2011)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=DonorsTrust" title="DonorsTrust" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">DonorsTrust</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=DonorsTrust_and_Donors_Capital_Fund_Grant_Recipients" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">$175,000</a> (2010-2018)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Policy Network</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Contributions_of_the_State_Policy_Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">$20,000</a> (2013)</li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Core Financials</h2><big>2018</big><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-2018_990-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Revenue: $209,764</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Expenses: $183,594</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Net Assets: $926,508</li></ul><big>2017</big><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-2017_990-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Revenue: $182,397</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Expenses: $163,998</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Net Assets: $900,338</li></ul><big>2016</big><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-2016_990-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Revenue: $901,799</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Expenses: $155,129</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Net Assets: $881,939</li></ul><big>2015</big><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-2015_990-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Revenue: $88,444</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Expenses: $142,450</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Net Assets: $135,269</li></ul><big>2014</big><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Revenue: $102,306</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Expenses: $172,439</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Net Assets: $189,275</li></ul><big>2013</big><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-2013_990-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Revenue: $146,247</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Expenses: $178,914</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Net Assets: $259,408</li></ul><big>2012</big><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-2013_990-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Revenue: $312,489</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Total Expenses: $194,751</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Net Assets: $292,075</li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Personnel</h2>As of April 2020:<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a>
<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Staff</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Maurice A. Thompson, Executive Director and Founder</li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Board of Directors</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Bradley A. Smith, Chairman</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Christopher P. Finney</li></ul>Former Directors<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">David N. Mayer</li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Contact Information</h2>Employer Identification Number (EIN): 27-16364361851 Center for Constitutional Law
122 E. Main Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Phone: (614).340.9817
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<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Articles and Resources</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">IRS Form 990 Filing</h3></div><div>...[docs]</div><div>references</div><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="column-width: 30em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-1" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> State Policy Center, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://spn.org/directory/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Directory</a>, organizational website, accessed January 3, 2017.</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-2" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ohioconstitution.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">About</a>, organizational website, accessed January 3, 2017.</li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-3" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> Charles Koch Institute, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.charleskochinstitute.org/professional-education/partner-organizations/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Partner Organizations</a>, organizational website, January 3, 2017.</li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-4" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> David Armiak, <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2019/11/13/revenue-state-policy-network-state-affiliates-tops-120-million/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2019/11/13/revenue-state-policy-network-state-affiliates-tops-120-million/</a> Revenue for State Policy Network and State Affiliates Tops $120 Million], ExposedbyCMD, November 13, 2019.</li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-5" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> Rebekah Wilce, Center for Media and Democracy, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/2/25/SPN_National_Report_FINAL.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" https="https" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">EXPOSED: The State Policy Network -- The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government</a>, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-6" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> Jane Mayer, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/11/is-ikea-the-new-model-for-the-conservative-movement.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?</a>, The New Yorker, November 15, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-7" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> Ed Pilkington and Suzanne Goldenberg, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/state-conservative-groups-assault-education-health-tax" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">State conservative groups plan US-wide assault on education, health and tax</a>, The Guardian, December 5, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-report-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">↑ <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-report_8-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:8.0</a> <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-report_8-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8.1</a> ProgressOhio and Center for Media and Democracy, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stinktanks.org/ohio" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Smoke Screen: The Buckeye Institute</a>, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-9" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> Altria Family of Companies, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.altria.com/Responsibility/Investing-In-Communities/Documents/Grant%20Recipients.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" https="https" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">2012 Recipients of Charitable Contributions from Altria Family of Companies</a>, corporate document, accessed November 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-10" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> Altria Family of Companies, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ansrmn.org/fckfiles/Tab1-FINAL.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" https="https" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">2009 Recipients of Charitable Contributions from Altria Family of Companies</a>, corporate document, accessed November 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-11" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> Cincinnati CityBeat, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.citybeat.com/home/blog/13034456/ohio-supreme-court-rules-smoking-ban-constitutional" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Ohio Supreme Court Rules Smoking Ban Constitutional</a>, Cincinnati City Beat, May 23, 2012.</li><li id="cite_note-2018_990-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-2018_990_12-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6834169-1851-Center-for-Constitutional-Law-2018-990.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">2018 IRS Form 990</a>, Internal Revenue Service, November 11, 2019.</li><li id="cite_note-2017_990-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-2017_990_13-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6834170-1851-Center-for-Constitutional-Law-2017-990.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">2017 IRS Form 990</a>, Internal Revenue Service, November 12, 2018.</li><li id="cite_note-2016_990-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-2016_990_14-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6834171-1851-Center-for-Constitutional-Law-2016-990.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">2016 IRS Form 990</a>, Internal Revenue Service, May 2017.</li><li id="cite_note-2015_990-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-2015_990_15-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2015/271/636/2015-271636436-0ce60d18-Z.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" https="https" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">2015 IRS Form 990</a>, Internal Revenue Service, August 15, 2016.</li><li id="cite_note-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-16" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2014/271/636/2014-271636436-0bc79b16-9.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" https="https" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">2014 IRS Form 990</a>, Internal Revenue Service, August 13, 2015.</li><li id="cite_note-2013_990-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">↑ <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-2013_990_17-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:17.0</a> <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1851_Center_for_Constitutional_Law#cite_ref-2013_990_17-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">17.1</a> 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2013/271/636/2013-271636436-0a5ee967-9.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" https="https" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">2013 IRS Form 990</a>, Internal Revenue Service, May 19, 2014.</li><li id="cite_note-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; 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