The supreme court ruled it was unconstitutional for the federal government to force individuals to buy goods or services they did not want according to the Commerce Clause.
The supreme court ruled it was unconstitutional to force states to comply or lose funding for existing programs.
The supreme court only ruled that congress or state assemblies had the constitutional authority to regulate such programs and levy a “tax” for people who didn’t participate.
The Fourteenth Amendment made the Dred Scott decision null and void.
yeah so they pulled a bunch of crap and called it a tax
what are you a FRIGGIN LAWYER
there the first to go, you know...(just ask Shakespeare)
there is another document
it begins like this....
The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...