>>>>>Is the health care bill constitutional?
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>>>>>Maybe. Maybe not. We'll see how it works out.
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>>>>Whichever way the courts untimately decide on this particular issue is no indication on it's underlining Constitutionality. The courts recently have been negligent at best in their duty to the Constitution.
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>>>>Forcing an individual citizen to purchase anything against their will is unconstitutional. Claiming that coercing commerce is legit under the commerce clause is laughable, regardless of which way Justice Kennedy decides to swing that day.
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>>>By that reasoning income tax, Social Security, and Medicare are all unconstitutional.
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>>I think income tax has an amendment that allows it, but for the most part yeah. The EPA, the FDA, the FCC, Dept of Ed, ect.
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>If you mean they were not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, that is correct. Lots of things were not mentioned explicitly in the Constitution. It was a framework written in a time and place. Written exceedingly well IMO. Those were some very wise men.
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>Anyone who wants to take a strict view of the Constitution surely agrees that women and blacks have no rights, just for starters.


You're acting as if you don't know the difference between a constitutional amendment and a run of the mill law.


>In our time strict constructionism has become an excuse for narrow mindedness and bigotry. Madison and Jefferson would be spinning in their graves.

You're drifting off into fantasy land. Come back to us!