heck of a job Tommy
"It’s the power to quarantine, ..."
Although this ebola situation is arguably no time to question the federal government’s constitutional limited powers, please note the following. The Supreme Court has historically clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to quarantine citizens for intrastate medical purposes imo.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
It’s the states who have the 10th Amendment-protected power to quarantine citizens for medical purposes.
Hate to say this but voluntary quarantines won’t work until a couple of runners are shot dead.
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It was dated August 22, 2014 and last reviewed August 29, 2014.
Please read it and then explain to me where the document, or anyone following its "recommendations", would have told Amber Vinson she could not travel.
First they’d come and confiscate our firearms, for our own safety, don’cha know...