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Virginia Legislature Passes Law Banning Health Insurance Mandates
Thu, 03/11/2010 - 1:32pm | posted by Doug Mataconis
Following up on a move by the Virginia Senate last month, today the Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill that would make it illegal to force any resident of the Commonwealth to purchase health insurance:
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia’s General Assembly is the first in the nation to approve legislation that bucks any attempt by President Barack Obama and Congress to implement the national health care overhaul in states like Virginia.
Without debate, the House of Delegates voted 80-17 Wednesday to accept Senate amendments to a bill that supporters say preserves Virginia’s prerogatives as a state.
Thirty-four other legislatures have filed or proposed similar measures rejecting health insurance mandates.
But Virginia’s legislature, scheduled to adjourn Saturday, is the first to finish work on a bill. The measure goes to Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell, who plans to sign it.
While I still have doubts about the Constitutionality of a law like this given the Supremacy Clause, it is nonetheless a fairly powerful indication of the voter disdain for a plan that, inexplicably, the Democrats continue to try to push through Congress.
Now Let’s see More States follow suit and slam Dictatorial impending Progressive policies by this White House and Congress… Just 235 More days until CLEANSING of Congress….
The 10th Amendment amends the Supremacy Clause.
“It is a bedrock principle of jurisprudence that for any conflict between provisions of a coequal body of law, the most recently enacted must be given deference as the most recent expression of the enacting authority. This principle is ancient. Without this principle, laws could not be amended or repealed.”
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=127787
The Bill of Rights was enacted AFTER the Supremacy Clause.
That is law.
Of course, any relationship between court decisions and law is purely coincidental…
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