From CNS News, Hoyer Says Constitution’s ‘General Welfare’ Clause Empowers Congress to Order Americans to Buy Health Insurance
Posts Tagged ‘Constitution’
State Sovereignty VS Individual Insurance Mandates
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009The American Legislative Exchange Council has a primer in How Your State Can Block Single-Payer and Protect Patients’ Rights.
Lawmaking By Bureaucracy
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009From the Competitive Enterprise Institute, EPA Proposes ‘Illegal’ Clean Air Rule
Washington, D.C., September 1, 2009—The Environmental Protection Agency has sent a proposed rule to the White House that would allow regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, but restrict the scope to only very large industrial sources. This proposal, issued under the Clean Air Act, violates the language of the statute and effectively amounts to the EPA usurping the role of Congress, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. (more…)
A Constitutional Coup d’etat
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Podcast from the Tenth Amendment Center by Rob Natelson,
…how the Supreme Court allowed the Federal Government in the late 1930s to drastically change the way the US Constitution is interpreted, how the Court initially tried to hold a line against FDRs expansion of power but changed position even before the infamous court-packing scheme, how the Commerce and Taxing powers were almost turned upside down, the Necessary and Proper clause and incidental powers, the false claim that the Supreme Court is conservative, how bad precedent leads to more bad court rulings, state elections as critical for Constitutional activists, and more.
Are Individual Mandates Unconstitutional?
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009A question to ask your Representative or Senator about current health care reform legislation: Where in the Constitution does it give the federal government the power to mandate the purchase of health insurance coverage? Former Department of Justice attorneys David Rivkin and Lee Casey think the individual mandate provision of HR 3200 violates the Constitution. From the Washington Post, Illegal Health Reform
A Question For Congress
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009Via Hot Air , a Marine asks Congressman Baird of Washington State, “Do you ever intend to keep your oath?