DUSTIN GAWRLOW: THE COMING CONSTITUTIONAL BATTLE
The next step in the debate over government healthcare will be in the courts. Already a dozen states have announced their intentions to challenge the constitutionality of the new law.
North Dakota's Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has said his office is looking into pursuing a similar effort specifically related to the requirement that every individual purchase coverage.
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This debate over federal vs. state power is older than the constitution itself.
North Dakota's Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has said his office is looking into pursuing a similar effort specifically related to the requirement that every individual purchase coverage.
Click here if you have not signed the petition pledging your support for this action. Over 400 already have signed the pledge.
This debate over federal vs. state power is older than the constitution itself.
"The State governments may be regarded as constituent and essential parts of the federal government; whilst the latter is nowise essential to the operation or organization of the former...The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State." - James Madison, Federalist Paper #45, January 1788.
According to Rasmussen 49% of Americans support efforts by states to challenge government-run healthcare (37% oppose the state action.)
And according to an unscientific poll by KFYR-TV over 70% of North Dakotans oppose the healthcare bill that is now law.
The supporters of the new law are already attacking the proposed constitutional challenges.
The healthcare issue will likely get pushed out of the forefront - already, new calls to push both Cap & Trade and Union Card-Check before the summer recess are being made. The theory being: if the liberals are going to get kicked out anyways, they might as well shove though everything they can - regardless of the Constitution.
And according to an unscientific poll by KFYR-TV over 70% of North Dakotans oppose the healthcare bill that is now law.
The supporters of the new law are already attacking the proposed constitutional challenges.
The healthcare issue will likely get pushed out of the forefront - already, new calls to push both Cap & Trade and Union Card-Check before the summer recess are being made. The theory being: if the liberals are going to get kicked out anyways, they might as well shove though everything they can - regardless of the Constitution.
Dustin Gawrylow, Executive Director
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