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Posted on 03/02/2012 3:26:26 PM PST by neverdem
The Supreme Court will not be deciding whether or not Obamacare is Constitutional. They will be deciding whether or not the U.S. Constitution is still in effect or if it is simply a relic of our past.
Either the US Constitution is still in effect or the Federal Government is just a bunch of thugs with guns. The Fed’s legitimacy rests solely on the constitution.
If he accepts the government’s argument that Raich is broad enough to allow Congress to force every American to buy health insurance from a private company, the individual mandate will almost certainly survive.
That makes my blood boil.
lol.
Liberatarians are crazy
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At least one historian thinks that that is what made the freehold farmers of the Later Roman Empire into the serfs of the Dark Ages. Mind, they were not slaves, and slavery persisted from antiquity into the modern era. But serfdom was the "arrangement" by which ancient senatorial grandees -- who by then were also distinguished in degrees of nobility by such titles as "illustris" and "clarissimus", and also by the imperial title of "comes", or "(imperial) companion", our "count" -- agreed to protect the freeholders from the grasping and desperately needy imperial tax machinery by extending their patronage over them, in return for which the freeholders effectively became bondmen in the name of "amicitia", "friendship": as in, "Don Corleone, be my friend."
Thank you for the explanation. If I remember correctly weren’t Serf’s considered to be less than a Slave? They were LITERALLY a part of the land they worked, Chattel or Cattle as some would say.
Slaves had to be fed, clothed and housed as they were considered an investment. They could be bought and sold and as they multiplied, their issue could be also. But a serf could not be sold unless the land was sold too. They had to provide their own food, clothing and shelter.
Unfortunately I can see this coming about again, oh sure it won’t be called serfdom and feudalism but the effects will be the same.
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