What part of the Constitution exactly is it that grants the authority to the Federal Government to mandate health insurance be purchased by individuals, and grants the authority to punish through fines if they do not?
Certainly not the Interstate Commerce clause.
What part of the Constitution matters at all to this administration?
It isn't the Constitution that we need to look to for answers:
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. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government
What part of the Constitution exactly is it that grants the authority to the Federal Government to mandate health insurance be purchased by individuals, and grants the authority to punish through fines if they do not?
Certainly not the Interstate Commerce clause.
You assume that the Federal Government gives a crap about the Constitution. Why?
What part of the Constitution exactly is it that grants the authority to the Federal Government to mandate health insurance be purchased by individuals, and grants the authority to punish through fines if they do not?Belive it or not the Constitution ISN'T mentioned ONCE in any of the 1017 pages of HR 3200. And neither is the Interstate Commerce clause.Certainly not the Interstate Commerce clause.
There is just this on Page One
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESThat's it, the 'Committee on Energy and Commerce.
JULY 14, 2009
Mr. DINGELL (for himself, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. STARK, Mr. PALLONE, and Mr. ANDREWS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned