[GeronL]

Bump

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As mentioned in related threads, there are two major constitutional problems with this “ruling” by the Obama Administration. First, the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide them from Obama, to clarify the following. All federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress; not in the executive and legislative branches.

The next constitutional problem with Obama's healthcare ruling is even more significant. More specifically, regardless what activist justices want everybody to think about the constitutionality of Obamacare Democratcare, the states have never delegated to the feds, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for public healthcare purposes. In fact, Justice John Marshall had officially clarified this in general as evidenced by the following excerpts.

• ”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• “Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

So Obama is not only wrongly usurping legislative powers from Congress concerning Democratcare, but he's usurping powers that the states have never delegated to Congress via the Constitution.