Document:LP News Number 21 (July-August 1974): Difference between revisions

But constituent pressure had created a bloc of Congressmen ready to repeal the ban on gold (enacted as an emergency measure by President Franklin Roosevelt). Representatives and Senators from mining districts, those with free market sympathies, and those who saw the gold ban as a civil liberties violation joined together. Gold legalization has long been advocated by libertarians, who have organized lobbying and educational groups like the National Taxpayers Union and the National Committee to Legalize Gold. Lobbying efforts by libertarians within and outside of the Republican Party placed a gold legalization plank in the 1972 Republican platform.