Maryland attorney Michael Peroutka is currently the party's
designated "provisional" Presidential candidate for
2004. Party founder and three-time Presidential nominee Howard
Phillips has already endorsed Peroutka for the nomination. Other
CP state chairs have also expressed support for his likely candidacy.
He has a long record of conservative activism, particularly
on behalf of the pro-life and pro-gun causes. Peroutka founded
and directs the Institute on the Constituion, a conservative
non-profit organization.
Within the party, Peroutka is the Maryland state party chairman
and serves on the CP's National Executive Committee. From 1976-87,
he worked on health care initiatives in the US Department of
Health & Human Services. He left HHS and opened his own
law firm after deciding that the programs on which he worked
had no constitutional foundation.
Peroutka is also the founder and director of the American College
for Cultural Studies (a biblical-constitutionalist education
program), and is active in several church and civic organizations.
Peroutka's strong Christian beliefs also influence his political
views. He advocates the view that the Constitution is founded
on the Bible and it can't be sustained without a biblically-grounded
judiciary.
Born and raised near Baltimore, Maryland, Michael Peroutka
learned the lessons of serving his church and the surrounding
community from his parents, Anthony and Elizabeth Peroutka.
Their example of public service inspired him to see public service
as his natural calling.
One of five children, he has served as a law partner with his
brother, Stephen, for the past eighteen years in the Pasadena,
Maryland law firm of Peroutka and Peroutka, P.A. During that
time he has been active in pro-life issues and has assisted
and founded many organizations including The Institute on the
Constitution (IOTConline.com) that seeks to educate Americans
about their own history, heritage and form of government. It
was his passion for learning about and restoring constitutional
government in his home state that led him to the Constitution
Party and its dedication to principle over politics.
A graduate of Loyola College in Maryland and the University
of Baltimore School of Law, Peroutka has been active in the
Constitution Party for several years and currently serves as
Chairman of the Constitution Party of Maryland and on the Executive
Committee of the National Party.
Early in his professional career Michael was employed at the
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Later,
as a young attorney, Michael realized that none of the programs
on which he was working were authorized by the United Stated
Constitution.
Michael lives with his wife, Diane and his children, Timothy,
Patrick and Elizabeth in Millersville, Maryland.
Website: www.peroutka2004.com
Phone: (877) 627-2004
Fax: (410) 766-8592
Address:
8028 Ritchie Highway, Ste. 303
Pasadena, US 21122
