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The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty is an American conservative research and educational institution, or think tank, in Grand Rapids, Michigan (with an office in Rome, Italy) whose stated mission is "to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles". Its work supports free market economic policy framed within Judeo-Christian morality. - Source: Wikipedia

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