The point of having specifically enumerated powers is to do exactly what you're complaining about: set clear limits on the democratic will of the people.
Actually, no, it's not. It's to ensure that we have a federal system with a limited NATIONAL government, and preserve the limited independence of the STATE governments. Since the state governments are democratically elected, too, and are NOT restrained by enumerated powers -- a state government CAN do anything the people want, except what is explicitly forbidden either by the U.S. Constitution or its own -- the enumerated powers in the Constitution do not put limits on the democratic will of the people. They just require that that will be expressed at the state rather than federal level, except as authorized.
The Bill of Rights does set limits on democracy. Enumerated powers do not.
Except that isn't what's happening here. This is the FEDERAL government requiring that every citizen purchase a product from another private business.
I really wish I understood the thought process of the judges that have ruled that this bill is constitutional, especially this supposedly conservative judge. I don't get why that precedent doesn't scare people.
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