ObamaCare Is Not a Covenant - Its a Law, and It Can Be Repealed If laws passed by one Congress, or signed by one president, or upheld by one Court were actually meant to be eternal fixtures binding future congresses, presidents, and courts, one might wonder why our Founders didnt chisel the laws they created on a stone beneath a giant statue of Washington, or why the Founders wouldnt prohibit any future provision to amend those laws via constitutional protocol. We should be eternally grateful that they didnt, shouldnt we? For example, many laws allowing or broadening the institution of slavery were passed by Congress in the 19th century; presidents signed them into law, and the Court of 1857 deemed slavery a constitutional right in the Dred Scott ruling. Should those laws and that ruling have bound American officials in future legislation barring slavery? Prohibition was so clearly understood to be a mistake that required repealing that future lawmakers took it upon themselves to do so, feeling unbound to somehow make it work because its the law. Should they have done so, or should they have felt bound by previous lawmakers? Ironically, this is not a concept lost on modern leftists. The Defense of Marriage Act was indeed the law, passed by Congress and signed by Democrat demigod Bill Clinton, yet they didnt at all see it as an enduring and timeless covenant with the American people in 2013, and they celebrated the judicial activism which heralded its end. Ah, but the Voting Rights Act was indeed the law, immovable and unamendable, and so they became enraged at the judicial activism which lifted certain penalizing provisions upon individual states deemed to have a history of prejudice. Read more: americanthinker/2013/11/obamacare_is_not_a_covenant_its_a_law_and_it_can_be_repealed.html#ixzz2k7yWQHef Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 06:56:21 +0000
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