tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post7180078385110028458..comments2024-03-18T17:01:07.165-07:00Comments on The Provocateur: Is Government Mandated Health Insurance Constitutional?mike volpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-48628380927742037462010-01-20T04:40:00.769-08:002010-01-20T04:40:00.769-08:00Great article you got here. I'd like to read a...Great article you got here. I'd like to read a bit more about this theme. Thnx for sharing this material.<br />Joan Stepsen<br /><a href="http://altgeek.org/" rel="nofollow">Wise geek</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-10601745646021796372009-08-26T22:21:16.161-07:002009-08-26T22:21:16.161-07:00Just because the corrupt federal government is alr...Just because the corrupt federal government is already involved in healthcare and many other aspects of everyday life doesn't mean that it's constitutional. After all, regardless that agriculture, for example, is a part of interstate commerce, Justice Owen Roberts officially wrote that Congress has no express constitutional permission to regulate agriculture.<br /><br />"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. 18 The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden." --Justice Owen Roberts, <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0297_0001_ZS.html" rel="nofollow">United States v. Butler, 1936</a><br /><br />Sadly, what's going on is that state sovereignty-ignorant voters have been electing lawmakers to both the state legislatures and the federal senate who are as state sovereignty-impaired as the voters are. Consequently, these lawmakers have not been doing their jobs to protect state sovereignty by protecting citizens from the power-hungry, tax-loving, Constitution-ignoring "leaders" (crooks) running the federal government.<br /><br />Finally, the following link should help give people an idea as to how state sovereignty-ignorant voters have shot themselves in the foot with big, corrupt federal government.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=199792" rel="nofollow">The 16th & 17th Amendments and the big, corrupt fed. gov.</a>B. Johnsonnoreply@blogger.com