The American Freedom Agenda (AFA) was a United States organization established in 2007 by disaffected libertarian-oriented conservatives demanding that the Republican Party return to its traditional mistrust of concentrated government power. It described itself as "a coalition established to restore checks and balances and civil liberties protections under assault by the executive branch." It was founded by Bruce Fein (chairman), Bob Barr, David Keene and Richard Viguerie.[1]
The ten points of the American Freedom Agenda pledge were:
On March 20, 2007, Ron Paul became the first presidential candidate to sign the American Freedom Agenda Pledge.[1][2] The group labeled presidential candidate Mitt Romney "unfit to serve as president" when he failed to sign the pledge.[3] Steve Kubby, a former candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination for president, has also signed the pledge.
On October 15, 2007, Paul introduced legislation, the "American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007" (H.R. 3835) before Congress,[4] which sought to legislate the aims of the American Freedom Agenda. The measure, which was co-sponsored by Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Peter Welch (D-Vermont), was referred to several House committees but never received a floor vote.[4]
