Malum Prohibitum said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/health/policy/08health.html
Judge George C. Steeh of Federal District Court in Detroit ruled that choosing not to obtain insurance qualified as an example of “activities that substantially affect interstate commerce.â€
I love that. Not doing something is an ativity. Or is it the act of choosing, which is the activity which can be regulated? Why do we even bother having a constitution? Just let the judges decide what's right and wrong.
ac·tiv·i·ty
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?/æk?t?v?ti/ Show Spelled[ak-tiv-i-tee] Show IPA
â€"noun, plural -ties.
1.
the state or quality of being active:
2.
a specific deed, action, function, or sphere of action: social activities.
3.
work, esp. in elementary grades at school, that involves direct experience by the student rather than textbook study.
4.
energetic activity; animation; liveliness.
5.
a use of energy or force; an active movement or operation.
6.
normal mental or bodily power, function, or process.
7.
Physical Chemistry . the capacity of a substance to react, corrected for the loss of reactivity due to the interaction of its constituents.
8.
Physics .
a.
the number of atoms of a radioactive substance that disintegrate per unit of time, usually expressed in curies.
b.
radioactivity.
9.
an organizational unit or the function it performs.