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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (472391)	3/1/2012 9:33:20 AM
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Obamacare: Contract killer By: Times-Dispatch Staff \| Richmond Times Dispatch Published: February 27, 2012 Just when you think everything that can be said about Obamacare's constitutionality has been said, along comes another legal brief that makes a new point. The latest was filed by the Arlington-based Institute for Justice, a nonpartisan, libertarian public-interest law firm. The institute points out that the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate — the requirement to purchase insurance — is not only an unprecedented expansion of federal power. It also undermines several centuries of contract law. From Hugo Grotius in the 17th century through William Story in the 19th and up to the present, legal doctrine has held that contracts are not valid unless they are entered into by ... Message 27982248