""Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution,
the time will come when medicine will organize an undercover dictatorship
To restrict the art of healing to one class of men, and deny equal privilege
to others, will be to constitute the Bastille of medical science
All such laws are un-American and despotic, and have no place in a Republic
The Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for
medical freedom as well as religious freedom"
"
Benjamin Rush MD Signer of the Declaration of Independence