Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said the “good and welfare clause” of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to force citizens to buy health care insurance, as required in the recently passed ObamaCare health care reform bill. There's only one little problem. There is no “good and welfare clause” in the U.S. Constitution!
This comes from the man who is the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee! Shouldn't he know better? Of course he should. But, this isn't about knowledge. This is an ideology that believes that the supreme law of the land, the U.S. Constitution, is a "living and breathing document" that they can shape into whatever they desire. It's funny that only the U.S. Constitution is defined this way. The far-left doesn't define traffic laws as "living and breathing".
Conyers said:
“Under several clauses, the good and welfare clause and a couple others. All the scholars, the constitutional scholars that I know -- I’m chairman of the Judiciary committee, as you know -- they all say that there’s nothing unconstitutional in this bill and if there were, I would have tried to correct it if I thought there were.”
I don't believe for a second that this was some sort of excusable slip-of-the-tongue by Mr. Conyers. And just what were the "couple others" clauses he's referring to? I'll bet you dollars to donuts, if pressed on these, he would not be able to identify them, which he deferred to the mysterious, faceless "scholars", who attended liberal law schools learning crafty ways to annihilate the Constitution in order to achieve whatever they deem as the "greater good". His comments exemplify the lack of credence the political class in Washington, D.C. gives to the U.S. Constitution, and this includes, overwhelmingly, the "scholars" cited by him.
The far-left sees the constitutional mandate of "limited government" as an inconvenient speed bump to using the heavy-handed force of government to attain their twisted view of "social justice", "equality" and "fairness".
The bottom line is that there is no "good and welfare" clause and there is no authority for the federal government to mandate that you buy anything, including an insurance policy.
Either we are a nation that respects the rule of law, or we are one that makes it up as we go along. The Founders designed the Constitution to be amendable, should society decide to change it. Unfortunately, the elite, power-hungry, radical far-left, who have taken over the majority of media, academia, and the courts, would rather feed their God-complexes by worming-in governmental authorities that don't exist.
Matthew Burke
Candidate: U.S. Congress, 1st District, Washington State
Well said Matthew!! Hang in there.
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