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Federal government, under the guise of regulating interstate commerce is akin to saying they can do anything under the guise of regulating interstate commerce and our u.s. supreme court has on a multitude of occasions said that the powers under the interstate commerce are not unlimited so i think this particular law flies in the face of prior supreme court rulings and is by far our strongest argument. bill: if you win on that, the mandate point, the cost of the bill falls apart. it doesn't pay for itself. what happens then? >> well, i think it does fall apart. and that is part of our argument,...

When our founders put together our constitution they had compromises and part of that was the federal government was going to have certain powers, but the rest were going to be preserved for the states and that was presumably to protect smaller and medium-sized states such as wisconsin and congress and president obama have quite clearly in my opinion overstepped their legal and constitutional bounds, they have taken away powerses and authorities granted to the states, and they have done so under the name of regulating interstate commerce. and if we as states don't stand up for our constitution...