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Today, a U.S. District Court ratified what many Americans have known for the past year: the health care law is not only bad policy, it is unconstitutional as well.  This decision strikes a blow for freedom and the enduring constitutional principles of our forefathers.

When the health care law was being debated, Energy and Commerce Republicans warned that Obamacare represented an unprecedented intrusion by government into the lives of American citizens.   At the time, we argued that the individual mandate violated Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution â€" the Commerce Clause â€" because it purported to regulate an individual’s ‘inactivity.’  If the government could compel individuals to engage in activities they wished to avoid â€" such as the purchase of health insurance â€" what restrictions could there possibly be on government’s power? 

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