The plaintiffs opposing The Affordable Care Act under the "Necessary and Proper Clause" of The Commerce Clause is stating the STATES are negated in their powers by the federal government.
Does it sound like a Republican Dreamscape?
Of course.
States Rights is where Republcans like to remain non-committal about any laws that serve the best interest of all the people of the country. Romney has already stated the health care insurance problem is a matter of States Rights. They are ready. This is their thing.
The argument below regarding the first bank of the nation was about a far smaller nation than the one we have today. Every state of the smaller USA has far less people to worry about and yet still there were those that found the Federal Government was necessary and proper to institute policies that would work for the country.
Those that saw a strong and effective central federal government authority wanted to move the nation forward as it was still young. Moving the nation forward in unity was important to many people and the opposition to that thought was that the USA would end up with a President that was a faux king with overpowering authority.
That is why the opposition existed to any strong central authority. We know today that when a federal law is neglected as in the case of Civil Rights there are states that simply will ignore the citizens and maintain the status quo regardless of the harm to those that live within the borders of that state. They do so without moral reasons.
It is the power of the "Necessary and Proper Clause" that prevents injustice across this country in many, many instances. The experience of Civil Rights is systemic throughout the USA. The ONLY reason States should be allowed to exist is to maintain the UNIQUE qualities they have due to their geography and cultures. In other words, the Mississippi River runs along and through many states. There are different economic interests and cultural interests in every state. The States have a right to defend those differences and maintain their interests.
BUT.
When the country has problems that are systemic the federal government needs to act and bring equity to all people experiencing the same problems. That is the OBLIGATION of the federal government.
The argument the Plaintiffs to The Affordable Care Act is making is to dummy down the functions of the federal government and try to erase the very real lives of Americans that would have benefited from this very law.
ONLY 50 million.
The child in this picture to President Obama's right had a dead mother due to the fact she did not have the benefit of the health insurance she needed to live.
This is not textbook legislation, it is not a toy anyone should be playing with, it save lives and that is what the Robert's Court dearly does not care to hear.
