the supreme court should strike this bill down as being against the constitution

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Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

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where in the constitution does the federal government get the responsibility of making sure the """people""" must have medical coverage

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that power is reserved for the """people""" or the states per the 10th ammendment

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Section 8 - Powers of Congress

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.


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i do not see the words mandate medical coverage to the """people""" in the section of the constitution labeled powers of congress

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but hey what do i know

You are not mandated to buy health insurance, you will merely pay a excise tax for not doing so. You have a choice.

Oh so your penalized for not buying something you say? Well I have news for you, thats Unconstitutional too.

I've been waiting for someone to walk right through that door..........

but arent YOU also giving your interpretation? it says nothing about federal government it says CONGRESS specifically, and again it doesnt specifically mention governments or individuals......not to mention the bill is used as a tax bill where people pay TAX FINES for not having insurance,,,,,,,much less harsh than other mandates imposed by the states, such as auto insurance,, driving without insurance doesnt require you to pay a tax,, its enforcable by JAIL

this mandate doesnt throw anyone in jail for not having insurance,, it will probably be argued as a tax issue (another privilege of congress) and on that basis could very well be upheld

congress is the federal government

here is a link to the constitution

http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Preamble

and to answer your question no i am not interpreting it

i am taking the definition of each word as it is written (literally)

webster interpreted it as the way it was intended

Oh so your penalized for not buying something you say? Well I have news for you, thats Unconstitutional too.

I've been waiting for someone to walk right through that door..........

Aren't you penalized for not having car insurance? Is that unconstitutional as well?

i see this is a waste of time

webster defined many words in the dictionary

show me an individual that is a foreign power state or a tribe

be well

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes

among the states,, show me states that arent made up of individuals....

yes states are full of individuals

as are tribes and foreign powers

but the difference is the state, foreign power and tribe have over seeing governing bodies and the federal government has the power to deal with these governing bodies not the individuals that are within the grasp of those governing bodies ---- thus the 10th amendment

another difference is the wording says WITH nations (a government?), and WITH tribes(a body) but not WITH several states,,,why the difference,, perhaps because AMONGST the several states could refer to the states as land mass which consists of PEOPLE purchasing things

You are not mandated to buy health insurance, you will merely pay a excise tax for not doing so. You have a choice.

or could it be they were smart enough to know that there would be more states added in the future and used the word several as a means not to limit the number of states they could deal with

a state no matter if one or several is still a state which is governed by a group and the fed can deal with that group not the individual

that is like saying you are not being robbed by the crook with a gun to your head

they will just shoot you

you have a choice

an individual is not a state

no matter how you try to make it so it is not

a state is

state

8.
a. The supreme public power within a sovereign political entity.
b. The sphere of supreme civil power within a given polity: matters of state.

the things dealing with the people is a matter for the state to deal with

more definitions of state from Miriam Webster

4 a : a body of persons constituting a special class in a society : estate 3 b plural : the members or representatives of the governing classes assembled in a legislative body c obsolete : a person of high rank (as a noble)
5 a : a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory; especially : one that is sovereign b : the political organization of such a body of people c : a government or politically organized society having a particular character <a police state> <the welfare state>


body of PEOPLE occupying a definite territory,,,is ALSO one definition of the word,,state

the clause doesnt clarify whether it is referring to the governing body or the body of people