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Individual mandates: not new, not unconstitutional

March 22, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Courts, Government, Health care, History One comment

So, you think it’s unconstitutional and unprecedented to pass a federal law mandating the purchase of a product? Think again. In 1792, America’s founders,

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