What are your thoughts on the "activity" vs. "non-activity" issue?
Chief Justice Roberts (plus the Scalia four) believe that the power to regulate Commerce does not include the power "to force individuals into commerce.," or as Scalia puts it, "to make mere breathing in and out the basis for federal prescription and to extend federal; power to virtually all human activity."
The Court says requiring individuals to purchase a product is unprecedented. Is it?
What about mandatory automobile insurance laws? Do these laws come from Congress or the states? Do they regulate inactivity? Or do they apply only to people who own and drive automobiles on public streets?
Is the decision to choose self-insurance instead of third-party health insurance an economic activity that substantially affects interstate commerce?
Are all 300 million Americans already active in heath care and financing health care?
The web log for Prof. Duncan's Constitutional Law Classes at Nebraska Law-- "[U]nder our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American. " -----Justice Antonin Scalia If you allow the government to take your liberty during times of crisis, it will create a crisis whenever it wishes to take your liberty.
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I. Tinker A student's right to speak (even on controversial subjects such as war) in the cafeteria, the playing field, or "on the...
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Monday August 28 : Handout on Moore v Harper (PDF has been emailed to you); Originalism vs. the "Living Constitution": Strau...
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Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop (art by Joshua Duncan) "We may not shelter in place when the C...
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