Reply #78: We're in a common law country. Precedent IS legality.

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Granted, the conservative strict-constructionist douchebags on the court might overturn Wickard v. Filburn, but they'd also overturn Brown v. Board of Education if they felt they could make it stick. Doesn't make it right.

The constitution gave the federal government broad authority to regulate interstate commerce in the U.S. The individual mandate in the health care law is simply an exercise of that power. You can give me plenty of reasons explaining what it's a bad idea, or that it's a bad idea in the absence of a public option, and I'd agree with you since I think the health care law is lacking in cost-control measures. However, it's still legal.