[allmendream]

At question is not just if the ‘individual mandate’ of 0bamacare is Constitutional or not - but if there is ANY LIMIT WHATSOEVER in the power of Congress to regulate any action or non action that may have any effect at all upon interstate commerce.

Does the limited and enumerated power given to Congress entail an unlimited and unenumerated basis of power?

Is the power to regulate interstate commerce the power to regulate EVERYTHING that may have any effect - however tangential - upon interstate commerce.

At its heart - do we live in a Republic with a government of limited and defined powers?

[ScottinVA]

At its heart - do we live in a Republic with a government of limited and defined powers?

I think events of the past 3.5 years have already answered that question.

[BlatherNaut]

Is the power to regulate interstate commerce the power to regulate EVERYTHING that may have any effect - however tangential - upon interstate commerce.

A theoretically limitless chain of implied powers derived from tangential connections, using the Commerce Clause as a fig leaf for tyranny...

Obviously not what the Founders envisioned.

[OneWingedShark]

Is the power to regulate interstate commerce the power to regulate EVERYTHING that may have any effect - however tangential - upon interstate commerce.

This has already been answered in the affirmative; see the USSC case Raich.