My interest was piqued by the title of the article, Why the Stupak Amendment to the Healthcare Reform Bill is Unconstitutional, by Marci Hamilton. Assuming the title was surely a play on words, as the title is nonsensical in nature, and even within the confines of the mildly learned, the Stupak Amendment was the only component of the health care reform bill that could remotely be construed as constitutional, I settled in for an au courant display of constitutional prowess. The author, Professor Marci A. Hamilton, according to her profile, holds the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where she is the founding Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program. She has been a visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary, the Center of Theological Inquiry, and Emory University School of Law.
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