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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eric who wrote (15889)	4/1/2010 11:15:23 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

When someone from the liberal blog ThinkProgress asked Romney whether he thought the new federal insurance mandate — so very much like the Massachusetts one Federal powers are more explicitly limited in the constitution than state powers. Other than areas where the federal government is directly given control and has chosen to use that control to limit state action, or areas directly covered by the individual rights recognized by and encoded in to the constitution, then extended to the states through the 14th amendment, the states pretty much have the constitutionally granted powers to do whatever they want. The feds on the other hand are, under the constitution, limited to powers the constitution gives them, not to everything that isn't directly forbidden by the constitution.