This year the holiday comes on a week where 20 state attorneys general argued before a federal judge in Florida that the federal government has no constitutional authority to mandate every American have health insurance.
On Thursday, however, Chief Justice Roberts drew a firm limit on the commerce power, writing that if accepted as the basis of the individual insurance mandate, federal authority would be virtually unlimited.
The constitutionality of the case hinged on two points: the ability of Congress to impose the individual mandate under the taxing authority and the unwillingness of the Court to question the wisdom of the law.
We were given a strict mandate by the Police Complaints Authority.
Conversely, a Supreme Court decision invalidating the mandate would not seriously undermine congressional authority.
City health officials, he wrote, aren't assigned the "sweeping and unbridled authority to define, create, authorize, mandate and enforce" the health code.
He's one of very very few Welsh politicians with anything like widespread public recognition and enjoys untrammelled authority over his party thanks to the thumping mandate from the 2009 leadership election.
As an incumbent president with a strong mandate, Mr Khatami retains much of his authority.
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Such measures would generally be void following the Supreme Court's decision in June that the individual mandate was valid under Congress's constitutional authority to levy taxes.
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Court of Appeals has ruled that the FCC does not have statutory authority to regulate broadband or the Internet, i.e. mandate net neutrality.
Then15 pages later, he explains why the mandate is a tax for purposes of determining whether Congress had authority to pass the law.
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He has not used his newfound authority to hack at the root of the current panic, the regulatory mandate to mark these assets down to panic prices, even on the balance sheets of those companies who are not engaged in panic selling.
But drug safety experts say that the problem is that this is the best data available--and that the FDA, because of lack of authority to force drug firms to do anything, has not been able to mandate large studies that would answer safety questions.
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