When pressed, ObamaCare supporters on Capitol Hill can’t explain what part of the Constitution of the United States of America authorizes the federal government to force Americans to buy health insurance, Glenn Beck pointed out on his TV show. (video here)
A reporter asked Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), who has sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution, a simple question and she couldn’t –or wouldn’t– answer.
The question was: “What part of the Constitution do you think gives Congress the authority to mandate individuals have to purchase health insurance?”
The senator replied, “Well, we’re very lucky as members of the Senate to have constitutional lawyers on our staff, so I’ll let them answer that.”
Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) answered the question. When asked, ”Where in the Constitution is the federal government charged with maintaining people’s health?” he replied
Well, it’s not in the Constitution. There’s nothing in the Constitution that says that the federal government has got anything to do with most of the stuff that we do.
"They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare.... [G]iving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please." --Thomas Jefferson
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