{"id":3995,"date":"2007-10-20T10:43:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T17:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/20\/ron-paul-introduces-bill-to-restore-the-constitution\/"},"modified":"2007-10-20T10:43:04","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T17:43:04","slug":"ron-paul-introduces-bill-to-restore-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/20\/ron-paul-introduces-bill-to-restore-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul Introduces Bill to Restore the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week Ron Paul introduced the  <a href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&#038;docid=f:h3835ih.txt.pdf\">&#8216;American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007&#8217;<\/a> to roll back the power of the federal government by restoring support for the US Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would, among other things, repeal the Military Commissions Act of 2006, prohibits &#8220;extraordinary rendition,&#8221; and the use of secret evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Paul<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/paul\/?articleid=11790\"> spoke on the floor of the House <\/a>when he introduced the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The driving force behind the legislation are two groups: the conservative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanfreedomagenda.org\/\">American Freedom Agenda<\/a> and the liberal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanfreedomcampaign.org\/\">American Freedom Campaign<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/naomi-wolf\/finally-action-ron-pau_b_69042.html\">Naomi Wolf wrote about the bill.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We urge everyone to <a href=\"http:\/\/salsa.democracyinaction.org\/o\/2165\/t\/1027\/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=17371\">contact their representatives<\/a> to support this bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Ron Paul introduced the &#8216;American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007&#8217; to roll back the power of the federal government by restoring support for the US Constitution. The bill would, among other things, repeal the Military Commissions Act of 2006, prohibits &#8220;extraordinary rendition,&#8221; and the use of secret evidence. Ron Paul spoke on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}