Is a Federal Mandate Constitutional?

Courtesy Donklephant  Tue, 11/17/2009 - 10:51am

Journalist Ezra Klein has come out in favor of the proposition that a federal health insurance mandate is constitutional, but the question remains a thorny legal problem.

If a reform bill is passed with an individual mandate, will it pass constitutional muster? The answer isn’t quite as clear as Klein would have us believe.

PENNumbra, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review’s online effort at “Uniting the Public and Legal Academy”, features a debate between legal scholars on...



 

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