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CTyankee

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11. We are working with an argument that is a little weak, IMO.
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 09:45 AM
Mar 2012

The fact that health care is "different" when it comes to the Constitution seems tenuous. Which is why I see again and again that our Constitution, far from being the shining beacon of law and justice, just has too many strictures and is too inflexible to render it useful in many respects. I am not talking about the Bill of Rights (except that I think it should be expanded), but more about the Commerce section and what the wrangle on the health care mandate is all about. Our Constitution is pretty creaky in many regards...no wonder justice Ginsburg recommended to the insurgents in Egypt last year that they not look to our Constitution but to that of South Africa for a more workable model...and boy did she get shit for that!

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