On January 28, 2013 AAPS along with Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom and individual physicians filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States in support of Hobby Lobby’s lawsuit against mandates in the Affordable Care Act.
The brief reads in part:
The founders of the United States of America (the “Founders”) understood that if the government had the power to carve out even a modest exception to particular freedoms, including religious freedom, then everyone’s freedoms would be at risk. Fearing encroachment upon their newly won freedoms, the Founders drafted and ratified a Constitution that dispersed and diffused power along multiple axes in order to prevent an undue concentration of governmental power in anyone’s hands, i.e. regardless of whether that power were to be exercised by the President, Congress, or even an overbearing faction of citizens, whether those citizens are in the majority or minority. The Founders designed a Constitution that would tend “to break and control the violence of faction.”
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