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- Title: State Sovereign Standing: Often Overlooked, But Not Forgotten.
- Author : Stanford Law School
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 335 KB
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INTRODUCTION Much of the analysis and commentary regarding the various suits challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), including Virginia's suit in Virginia ex rel. Cuccinelli v. Sebelius, have focused on the merits. (1) This is not surprising because, for both lay and legal audiences, the issue of exactly what, if any, limits remain on the powers of the federal government implicates an essential question regarding the nature of the American polity. Will the New Deal revolution now be read as having progressed to the point that we must forever abandon the civics lessons of our childhood that taught that the federal government was one of limited and enumerated powers?