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The ACLU is the American Civil Liberties Union, which was run for its first 30 years by a American citizen named Roger Baldwin, who helped found it in 1920 in response to the [[Espionage Act]] and [[Sedition Act]]. Baldwin once declared being "for ''Socialism'', disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself... We seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the ''sole control'' of those who produce wealth. ''Communism'' is the goal." <ref>http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9402/aclu.html</ref>
The ACLU is the American Civil Liberties Union, which was run for its first 30 years by a American citizen named Roger Baldwin, who helped found it in 1920 in response to the [[Espionage Act]] and [[Sedition Act]]. Baldwin once declared being "for ''Socialism'', disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself... We seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the ''sole control'' of those who produce wealth. ''Communism'' is the goal." <ref>http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9402/aclu.html</ref> Baldwin and the ACLU purged the communists in 1940.
==ACLU and the Establishment Clause==
==ACLU and the Establishment Clause==
A example of ACLU litigation regarding the Establishment Clause was ''Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School Dist.'', 400 F.Supp.2d 707 (M.D. Pa. 2005)<ref>http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/kitzmiller_v_dover_decision.html</ref> , also known as the [[Intelligent design]] case. The ACLU prevailed in prohibiting teachers from teaching [[Intelligent Design]] to students, and forbade the school board from issuing a warning that evolution was "theory, not fact."<ref>''Kitzmiller v. Dover Area Sch. Dist.,'' 400 F.Supp.2d 707.</ref>
A example of ACLU litigation regarding the Establishment Clause was ''Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School Dist.'', 400 F.Supp.2d 707 (M.D. Pa. 2005)<ref>http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/kitzmiller_v_dover_decision.html</ref> , also known as the [[Intelligent design]] case. The ACLU prevailed in prohibiting teachers from teaching [[Intelligent Design]] to students, and forbade the school board from issuing a warning that evolution was "theory, not fact."<ref>''Kitzmiller v. Dover Area Sch. Dist.,'' 400 F.Supp.2d 707.</ref>