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de Tocqueville on Perpetual Children
Reading from de TocquevilleThis reading draws on the book Democracy in America, written by Alexis de Tocqueville over 175 years ago when our unique republic was still young. He had many favorable insights into our then new form of self governance, but he also raised cautions. Notably, he pondered what form of future despotism might we conceivably someday confront. While he had few concerns that our constitutional checks and balances would allow tyrants to com
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Why Obamacare is Unconstitutional
The Obamacare individual mandate is unconstitutional because it exceeds the federal government's power under the Commerce Clause of Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. The key case upon which the government relies to support the mandate is Wickard v. Filburn, decided in 1942, in which the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a previous federal power grab. Wickard was far-reaching but proved to be the high-water mark of Commerce Clause jurisprudence. No Supr
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