First Freedoms Foundation
Amicus Curiae
Michael D. Dean, Counsel of RecordThe First Freedoms Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded to defend individual liberties from encroachment by expanding government. Michael D. Dean practices real estate, commercial, education, and civil rights law at the Wisconsin firm Dean & McKoy. He is a 1987 graduate of Marquette University Law School. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 13, 1999.For millennia, learned men and women have struggled to pursue truth wherever it leads. For even longer, prince and pope have struggled to restrain and…