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To: Jedidah
He also slapped down fradulent use of the Commerce Clause,

Posters have already shown that that is not the case
202 posted on 07/01/2012 3:32:37 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: uncbob

I don’t know what “posters” have said, but I do know what the SCOTUS opinion said:

“Construing the Commerce Clause to permit Congress to regulate individuals precisely because they are doing nothing would open a new and potentially vast domain to congressional authority. Congress already possesses expansive power to regulate what people do. Upholding the Affordable Care Act under the Commerce Clause would give Congress the same license to regulate what people do not do. The Framers knew the difference between doing something and doing nothing. They gave Congress the power to regulate commerce, not to compel it. Ignoring that distinction would undermine the principle that the Federal Government is a government of limited andenumerated powers. The individual mandate thus cannot be sustained under Congress’s power to ‘regulate Commerce.’ “

You are most welcome to disagree, but in my book that’s slapping down a fradulent use of the Commerce Clause, and I appreciate it.


258 posted on 07/01/2012 6:13:44 PM PDT by Jedidah
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