Maurice A. Thompson is an American lawyer. He serves as the executive director of the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, a free market-oriented legal advocacy group in

Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...

. The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law began as a project of the

Buckeye Institute The Buckeye Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan, free-market public policy think tank. The organization, based in Columbus, Ohio, says its mission is "to advance free-market public policy in the states." History and leadership In 1989, econo ...

but was ultimately spun off as a separate organization. Thompson wrote Issue 3, the constitutional amendment approved by Ohio voters in November 2011.

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