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Region: Capitalist Paradise

Informed consent

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The Federal Government is suppose to have limited power. The advocates for unlimited central government usually cite two portions of the Document to circumvent the Bill of Rights.

First is the commerce clause, by considering any human activity to be “commerce” and subject to Federal control. This is incorrect since the commerce clause was amended by the restrictions imposed by the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was not amended by the commerce clause.
The second part of the constitution favored by advocates for a powerful central government is the Fourteenth Amendment. That amendment guarantees equal protection under the laws. Under this method Congress has power to meddle in such areas as healthcare to ensure that all care is equally inferior, and no one benefits from being rich. The problem is that the Fourteenth Amendment was passed after the American civil war to expand personal Liberty and Freedom, not to impose limitations on it.

The regulation of the practice of medicine is simply not a Federal power.

We are dealing with people whose bread and butter is the deliberate misinterpretation and misapplication of constitutional law.
Using the 14th as an example, progressives have used it to justify anchor babies despite the fact that the senator who authored the amendment specifically stated in his dissertation that was not the intention.
Government never gives back any authority it accrues by hook or crook, and it is not a question of if, but when that authority is abused.

Midlands wrote:

There's no freedom to endanger others.

Not a problem.
Concerned citizens are free to mitigate as they see fit rendering any perceived danger from others moot.

Lutiania

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