ObamaCare: Freedom on Life Support

"I've read somewhere that the Constitution does not give the Supreme Court the right to declare laws unconstitutional. Apparently, from what I read, at some fairly early point in the history of our country, the Supreme Court simply granted itself the right to declare a law, i.e., there is a first instance of this in our history, the Supreme Court simply granted itself the right to declare a law unconstitutional."

The case is Marbury v. Madison (1803)but the concept of judicial review goes much further back into English law and though the Constitution doesn't explicitly give the power of judicial review to the SCOTUS, it is something no doubt the framers intended for the Court to have in order to be able to check the other...