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Originally posted by ChrisCrikey
It's astonishing to me how many people on ATS openly support and advocate political terrorism and violence against elected officials. I really hope you are being monitored by the appropriate law enforcement agencies...thanks for revealing yourselves so openly. You support terrorism and I consider you cowards.
Originally posted by tracer7
while threats are uncalled for, they are not listening when we talk.
Originally posted by searching4truth
Originally posted by brainwrek
reply to post by searching4truth
So the millions of people that voted for Obama and wanted healthcare reform should not have had their voices heard. Instead, those who want to go the route of physical violence should get their way. Sounds democratic to me.
Originally posted by brainwrek
Poll after poll showed more people were against this health care bill than were for it.
Originally posted by hawkiye
Originally posted by searching4truth
Originally posted by brainwrek
reply to post by searching4truth
No they should not the millions that voted for Obama have no say in who what or how I choose my health care or anything else in my life as long as I am not oppressing anyone. And yeah it's not democratic and its not supposed to be because were not supposed to be a damnable democracy we are supposed to be a free republic where the mob does not have a say in such things!
By popular usage, however, the word "democracy" come to mean a form of government in which the government derives its power from the people and is accountable to them for the use of that power. In this sense the United States might accurately be called a democracy. However, there are examples of "pure democracy" at work in the United States today that would probably trouble the Framers of the Constitution if they were still alive to see them. Many states allow for policy questions to be decided directly by the people by voting on ballot initiatives or referendums.
Insofar as the 1974 amendments operate directly to displace the States' abilities to structure employer-employee relationships in areas of traditional governmental functions, such as fire prevention, police protection, sanitation, public health, and parks and recreation, they are not within the authority granted Congress by the Commerce Clause. In attempting to exercise its Commerce Clause power to prescribe minimum wages and maximum hours to be paid by the States in their sovereign capacities, Congress has sought to wield its power in a fashion that would impair the States' "ability to function effectively in a federal system," Fry v. United States, 421 U.S. 542, 547 n. 7, and this exercise of congressional authority does not comport with the federal system of government embodied in the Constitution. Pp. 840-852.
Originally posted by searching4truth
Exactly whose blood was spilled over healthcare?
Originally posted by searching4truth
reply to post by brainwrek
Exactly which points do you find to be unconstitutional?