Half awake, I lie collecting thoughts, the bare facts, of the near-legend I have just left... Caroline Lee Bouvier... born in 1933 to John V. Bouvier III and Janet Lee, four years after her sister Jacqueline.
Following frequent plate changes, a 4 hr egg lay was collected.
It took till 1909 for Congress to win the power "to lay and collect" income taxes.
* Did the Justice feel that the mandate was constitutional because it qualifies as a tax, and thus falls under Congress's authority to "lay and collect Taxes"?
But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government's "power to lay and collect taxes".
The decision was mooted (unsettled) in 1913 by ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution, giving Congress the power "to lay and collect taxes on incomes".
The very first power the people grant their elected representatives in the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1) says, "The Congress shall have the power to lay, and collect, taxes, imposts and duties...."....
The decision, from a divided three-judge panel, said the mandate overstepped Congressional authority and could not be justified by the constitutional power "to regulate commerce" or "to lay and collect taxes".
The Obama administration contends that this part of the law, often called the individual mandate, can be justified by the constitutional power of Congress "to regulate commerce" and "to lay and collect taxes".
The full text of the Amendment is: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
