Health Care and the Constitution | Roger Pilon | Cato Institute: Commentary

Health Care and the Constitution | Roger Pilon | Cato Institute: Commentary: "And that brings us back to Congress's commerce power. If that power were understood by the Framers and the ratifying generation as the New Deal Court read it, the Constitution would never have been ratified, and the doctrine of enumerated powers would never have been championed as the centerpiece of the document. Indeed, if Congress, under that single power, could regulate anything and everything, there would have been no need to enumerate any of Congress's other powers. The Framers could have stopped right there."