Jeff, what you wrote? “The House of Representatives can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society...without which every government degenerates into tyranny. If it be asked, what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer: the nature of just and constitutional laws; and above all, the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it.” Federalist Paper No. 57, Alexander Hamilton
Right there wouldn’t that make this health care plan illegal?
It would if it were actually written in law...but it was a part of the Federalist papers where Hamilton and others were explaining things. It’s not written that directly into the constitution. Would that it were because it is obvious that was their intent.
The big catch is that We The People have no recourse when the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches violate the Constitution. That is except our votes, and usually, for some stupid ass reason, we keep putting the same criminals back in office.
What would be real handy would have been a provision for We The People to bring suit against the offenders in a court of our peers. Or even to be able to bring an issue before the Supremes for a ruling on the constitutionality of it. It takes so long and there are so many loop holes along the way that issues take decades to be ruled on and by then the problem addressed is part of every day life and no longer seen for what it was.