{"id":10875,"date":"2011-08-12T13:28:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T17:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10875"},"modified":"2011-08-12T13:38:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T17:38:47","slug":"11th-circuit-rules-obamacare-individual-mandate-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10875\/11th-circuit-rules-obamacare-individual-mandate-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"11th Circuit Rules ObamaCare &#8220;Individual Mandate&#8221; Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, correctly, that the &#8220;individual mandate&#8221; of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-appeals-court-declares-individual-mandate-unconstitutional-2011-8\" target=\"_blank\">ObamaCare is unconstitutional<\/a>.\u00a0 That stands to reason.\u00a0 The Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution to ensure liberty through a federal government of strictly limited powers.\u00a0 One aspect of that effort was to restrict federal authority to regulating actual &#8220;interstate commerce.&#8221;\u00a0 But since ObamaCare&#8217;s individual mandate effectively declares that a citizen&#8217;s <em>inactivity<\/em> somehow amounts to &#8220;interstate commerce,&#8221; upholding ObamaCare would have rendered the Constitution&#8217;s interstate commerce clause meaningless.\u00a0 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?<\/p>\n<p>This is a moment for grateful celebration, even if only temporary.\u00a0 The broader battle continues, eventually at the Supreme Court level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, correctly, that the &#8220;individual mandate&#8221; of ObamaCare is unconstitutional.\u00a0 That stands to reason.\u00a0 The Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution to ensure liberty through a federal government of strictly limited powers.\u00a0 One aspect of that effort was to restrict federal authority to regulating actual &#8220;interstate commerce.&#8221;\u00a0 But since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2955,12,311,35],"class_list":["post-10875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-11th-circuit","tag-health-care","tag-individual-mandate","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10875"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10880,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions\/10880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}