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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: 7-2 Supreme Court dismisses Obamacare challenge [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)general welfare clause and how liberal justices interpreted it to provide a constitutional basis for the New Deal programs even though nothing like them is actually addressed in the constitution.
As for the "right to privacy," aka "right to be left alone," check out Griswold v Connecticut (and its "specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance" ) brought after Connecticut made contraception illegal. Its rationale is even more of a pieced creation regarded officially with contempt by those determined to look only at the original words and meaning and not the meaningful application of their intent centuries later.
It's been a huge controversy and cause for conservative opponents ever since. They very strongly disagree with cobbling together notions merely inferred from what is actually written in various spots in the constitution to construct the phony rationales we used to wrongly impose liberal ideology on the nation.
Doctrines of "textualism" and "originalism" have been developed on the right make their case for cleaning out the liberal corruption. They have enough far-right justices now, but they still need an electorate too disempowered to stop them.