John Adams, raging socialist!

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There are actually a number of instances in American history, including in the early days of the republic, where legislation regulating "economic inactivity" (as the individual mandate is argued to do) was passed:

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http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/01/clearly_constitutional.html

I mean, look at the first bullet point. George Washington signed a bill passed by a Congress made up of people who wrote and signed the constitution that required people to buy guns. If the individual mandate is unconstitutional, so is one of the very first laws, signed by our very first president, written by the people who wrote the constitution.

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Forbes must be really getting behind the times.

http://volokh.com/2010/04/02/an-act-for-the-relief-of-sick-and-disabled-seamen/

Well, if Republicans would rather we just had a single-payer or medicare for all system funded by payroll taxes, like the founders intended, I'd be fine with that as well.

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Am I alone in finding the American tendency to justify their arguments by invoking the Founding Fathers bizarre?

No, it's one of the worst things in American politics.