Randy Barnett, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, on states attempting to override a possible federal mandate that everyone buy health care:

"While using federal power to force individuals to buy private insurance raises serious constitutional questions, I just don't see what these state resolutions add to the constitutional objections to this expansion of federal power."

Health Care Overhaul and Mandatory Coverage Stir States’ Rights Claims

September 28, 2009, The New York Times