An Opinion Holding the Act Constitutional

The Affordable Care Act is constitutional.

As this commentary first appeared on www.annals.org, the Supreme Court was hearing arguments in one of the most important social policy cases of the past several decades: the constitutionality of the requirement that individuals obtain minimum health insurance coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The “individual mandate” is the centerpiece of the ACA, and removin...

The real constitutional problem with the Affordable Care Act.

Constitutional background to the Social Security Act of 1935.

In June 1937, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported unfavorably on Roosevelt's Court-packing plan and the bill was effectively killed. In the same month, Justice Van Devanter retired and gave Roosevelt his first opportunity to make an appointment to the Supreme Court. Over the following 6 years, Roosevelt made seven more appointments to the Court, and in the years that followed the Court cont...

Organizational suggestion system in the era of holding by developing an innovative model : the case of bonyade ta avon holding in Iran(an applied model)

One of the popular ways of taking advantage of personnel creativity is through suggestion systems. Our main question is how to implement suggestion system in holding with conglomerate structure. The paper presents an innovative model that were named ITFSK Model with accordance of Bonayade Taavone (a holding that has many companies and institutions with conglomerate structure). ITFSK is a model ...

The Origination Clause, the Affordable Care Act, and Indirect Constitutional Violations.

"All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills." U.S. Const. art. I, § 7, cl. 1 (Origination Clause). "As we have often noted, '[c]onstitutional rights would be of little value if they could be . . . indirectly denied.'" United States Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779, 829 (1995) Th...