Eliot, why do we have to listen to your drivel?
Why is it that Democrats caught up in scandal become rehabilitated as some sort of “elder statesmen” whom we are supposed to be in awe of??????
“Eliot, why do we have to listen to your drivel?”
I don’t know but we should nonetheless address his examples supposing they exist as he said they did,and they did not.
We will start with the 1792 militia act:
Eliot said: “
In 1792, another law signed by Washington required that all able-bodied men buy a firearm. (So much for the claim Congress can’t force us to participate in commerce.)
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See the militia Clause Article 1 Section 8 Clause 15.
It was under this clause that congress supposed the power to arm the population it regarded as militia.
Eliot said: “
In 1790, a Congress including 20 founders passed a law requiring that ship owners buy medical insurance for their seamen. Washington signed it into law.
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Eliot said: “
And in 1798, a Congress with five framers passed a law requiring that all seamen buy hospital insurance for themselves. Adams signed this legislation.
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In both theses acts applied only to ship & sailors NOT the general intrastate population. indeed The first 1790 act only applied specifically to ships of 10 person or more going to foreign ports without medicine on board, and constituted an employment compensation requirement for said sailors.
It is worth noting that the 2nd and admittedly more aggressive act was of course passed by the same congress that passed & signed the Alien & sedition acts. It too however was limited only to sailors actually crossing state lines by way of sea in the coarse of their work.
The Individual mandate does not care whether or not you have ever left your state much less are are employees on a commercial maritime vessel leaving your state for anther state in the business of transporting goods to be sold in other states.