Supreme Court hearing on individual mandate tees up blockbuster decision
Published March 27, 2012
| FoxNews.com
"The issue on Tuesday will present the justices the opportunity to determine how much power the federal government has in forcing Americans to purchase a product or enroll in a government program they might otherwise avoid. Washington lawmakers have never before used this power. Some say that's because it's never been this necessary; others contend it's because the authority doesn't exist.
The justices will be looking at three significant constitutional areas to determine whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is lawful: the Commerce Clause, the Necessary and Proper Clause and the federal government's taxing power.
The most prominent of these is the Commerce Clause, which gives the government power to regulate commercial activity among the states."
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