{"id":17360,"date":"2020-06-20T12:09:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T16:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=17360"},"modified":"2020-06-20T12:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T16:09:03","slug":"even-the-framers-spoke-of-the-necessity-of-putting-medical-freedom-in-the-u-s-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=17360","title":{"rendered":"Even the framers spoke of the necessity of putting &#8220;medical freedom&#8221; in the U.S. Constitution."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>\u201cUnless we put medical freedom into the Constitution,<br \/>\nthe time will come when medicine will organize into an<br \/>\nundercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to<br \/>\none class of men and deny equal privileges to others;<br \/>\nthe Constitution of the Republic should make a special<br \/>\nprivilege for medical freedoms as well as religious<br \/>\nfreedom.\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2014 Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), signer of the Declaration of Independence,<br \/>\nSurgeon General to the Continental Army.<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}