Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 8, 2010

George Caram Steeh, a federal District Judge in Michigan, offers what may be the definitive illustration of the axiom that the Constitution poses no threat to our system of government.

Judge Steeh ruled against a group of plaintiffs who seek an injunction against the ?Obamacare? individual health insurance mandate, which would impose a health care tax of nearly $9,000 a year. The plaintiffs made note of the indisputable truth that the Constitution does not authorize Congress to impose that requirement on individual citizens.

Judge Steeh dismissed this complaint by ruling that Congress has that unallocated power because the Supreme Court ?has expanded the reach of the Commerce Clause to reach purely local, non-commercial activity, simply because it is an integral part of a broader statutory scheme?.? In other words, the Congress has any power it can conjure for any purpose it can contrive. Upholding Obamacare means dispensing entirely with the pretense that the Constitution retains any meaning.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.