The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, correctly, that the “individual mandate” of ObamaCare is unconstitutional. That stands to reason. The Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution to ensure liberty through a federal government of strictly limited powers. One aspect of that effort was to restrict federal authority to regulating actual “interstate commerce.” But since ObamaCare’s individual mandate effectively declares that a citizen’s inactivity somehow amounts to “interstate commerce,” upholding ObamaCare would have rendered the Constitution’s interstate commerce clause meaningless. Accordingly, it follows that if one explicit portion of the Constitution can thus be rendered meaningless, what would be the logical limit restraining government from declaring any other Constitutional clause meaningless at whim?
This is a moment for grateful celebration, even if only temporary. The broader battle continues, eventually at the Supreme Court level.
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