Mandate Challenge Could Prevail

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Author(s)	Ilya Somin
Source	Richmond Times-Dispatch
Date	November 7, 2010
URL	http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/rtd-opinion/2010/nov/07/ed-somi07-ar-634809/
Quote	"A series of flawed Supreme Court decisions have expanded Congress' Commerce Clause authority well beyond what the text of the Constitution permits. These rulings allow the federal government to regulate almost any "economic activity." But, as Judge Vinson emphasized, even they do not give Congress the power to regulate people "based solely on citizenship and on being alive." Far from engaging in "economic activity," people who decide not to purchase health insurance are actually refraining from doing so."

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This item argues for the position Act should not have been passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.