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To: central_va
Listen you don’t get it

WRONG. You're the one who doesn't get it.

To make a universal health care unconstitutional you’d have to pass amendment making it so.

WRONG again. That's exactly backwards. If you want to give Congress the authority to pass "healthcare for all", authority which it currently lacks, you need to pass an amendment. Until then, pound sand.

The Constitution is intended to strictly limit the authority of the government. Any authority or power not specifically granted to the central government is reserved to the States or to the People. THAT IS THE SYSTEM AS DESIGNED.

Once again, if you believe that the Congress has the authority to pass "health care for all", cite the provision of the Constitution granting it such authority.

You won't.

You can't.

IT DOESN'T EXIST.

Congress is perfectly capable of seizing power … that is not the behavior of the legislative branch of a Constitutional Republic. It's the behavior of an out-of-control tyranny.

39 posted on 05/29/2019 1:38:12 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Any authority or power not specifically granted to the central government is reserved to the States or to the People. THAT IS THE SYSTEM AS DESIGNED.


But, unfortunately, not as practiced. George W Bush finished off decades of states losing power with his insistence on pushing Gonzales v Raich.

As Justice Thomas said in dissent, the ruling gives the federal government power to regulate anything it pleases, right down to church suppers.

The decision blew down the remaining barriers and destroyed the Republic.

Welcome to the Nation State, citizen.


40 posted on 05/29/2019 1:43:11 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: NorthMountain
You really are uneducated in Constitutional law. Congress does not need "authority" to pass laws!!

If a law is unconstitutional and no one with standing chooses to make a case then it remains law. A perfect example was the Louisiana Purchase which was unconstitutional ( even Jefferson said so) but nobody complained about the RE deal of the millennia!!!.

43 posted on 05/29/2019 1:52:28 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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