Obamacare proves hard to defend

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Author(s) Kevin O'Brien
Source The Plain Dealer
Date March 29, 2012
URL http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2012/03/obamacare_proves_hard_to_defen_1.html
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Quotes-start.png The Obama administration argues, in essence, that a clause in that document -- the "interstate commerce" clause -- is a Trojan horse the authors included so Congress could someday invalidate everything else in the document to seize plenary power. On no level does such an argument make sense. Not legally. Not logically. Not historically. If the founders had intended the federal government to do "most anything" in this country, they would have written something vastly different from our Constitution. And the product of that writing exercise would never have been ratified. Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Act is unconstitutional on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.