Obamacare case goes beyond health care

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Author(s)	The Detroit News editorial board
Source	The Detroit News
Date	November 16, 2011
URL	http://detnews.com/article/20111116/OPINION01/111160315/1008/Editorial--Obamacare-case-goes-beyond-health-care
Quote	as one judge put it, if Congress can require all citizens to purchase health insurance merely because they are citizens, it can also require them to purchase broccoli — or do anything else the federal government demands. This can't be what the Framers of the Constitution had in mind. When members of the Committee on Style were drafting the document in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, they argued about the placement of commas and semi-colons. They wouldn't have done so had they envisioned a Congress that would have unlimited power to adopt any regulation covering anything.

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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.