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Tyranny goes hand in hand with powerful people controlling and manipulating language - the meaning of words. Here are four - of many - ways they’ve done this with the Constitution.
. Two members of a three-panel 6th Circuit Court of Appeals RULING applied the Humpty-Dumpty theory of language to the meaning regulating commerce
Doesn't have that power. the court basically send the argument of the critics here who said that those three words in the constitution that congress has the power to, quote, regulate commerce, means that congress can regulate people already involved in commerce but if you don't have insurance, not in commerce, therefore, they can't drag you into the stream of commerce to regulate all the court by a very narrow margin upheld that or at least is there a controlling number of justices who would hold that. that is not a unanimous decision, i would say of the majority. this is a plurality opinion w...
By president george w. bush. why did he do what he did today? >> we can't say that for sure. we can only look at his words. i think you have to go back to when the case was argued to say that while justice roberts did have some skepticism, there were also questions that he asked that indicated he might support the law. so it's not a huge stunner in that sense because he in essence had signalled that he might do it. i think you have to say this is really two decisions. first of all, the supreme court with justice roberts joining with the four conservatives agreed with one of the central conserv...
Something because that's beyond the power and the constitution that says congress has the power to, quote, regulate commerce. now, those who had objected to this said if somebody doesn't have insurance, then they're not doing anything you can regulate. and basically justice roberts agrees with that. however, he says, there's a longstanding cannon or tradition of interpreting laws, acts of congress, that says you look at there are other ways to find it constitutional. and he says there is. this is the government's fallback argument that if the mandate is still constitutional under the congress'...