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Verilli Not Administration's Worst Lawyer After All

Joe on St. Croix Wrote: Apr 05, 2012 3:19 PM

Progressives frequently refer to Romney care, comparing it to Obama care. The distinction is massive. There is no power in the Constitution to enable the Federal Government to force an individual to buy something. By default, States may have that power, although there may be some reason to think that Romney care is also unconstitutional in that it violates a Civil Right, i.e. Liberty. If the progressives want to give more power to the Federal Government then they need to amend the Constitution, not try to stretch the "Commerce Clause" over yet another freedom. For over 200 years villains have tried to bury the Constitution in the name of doing what's good for the People. Their real agenda is to control the People.

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Verilli Not Administration's Worst Lawyer After All

The reason tea partiers carried signs saying "Read the Constitution!" was that we were hoping people would read the Constitution.

Alas, we still have Rick Santorum saying Obamacare is the same as what he calls "Romneycare"; the otherwise brilliant Mickey Kaus sniffing that if states can mandate insurance purchases, then we're "not talking about some basic individual liberty to not purchase stuff" (no, just the nation's founding document, which protects "basic individual liberties" by putting constraints on Congress); and the former law professor, Barack Obama, alleging that a "good example" of judicial activism would be the Supreme Court (in his...

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