With regard to this administration’s healthcare reform efforts, and more specifically the individual mandate, are recent attempts to repeal HR 3200 more a partisan case of throwing the political baby out with the bathwater? Or an honest attempt to reverse a descent down the road of what some would say is a misinterpretation (and hence, violation) of the Constitution?
Don’t worry – we’re smart enough to refrain from tackling that highly charged topic today. But regardless of one’s position, you have to admit the lack of a severability clause compounds the issue.
According to West’s Encyclopedia of American law, the definition of a severability clause is:
“In a statute, an exception of a spec
