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Poll Question: Do You Think the Individual Mandate is Constitutional?

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General public with tickets to listen to a hearing on the Obamacare line up for entering the U.S. Supreme Court March 27, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

This morning the Supreme Court begins its second day of oral arguments about the Affordable Care Act, today taking up the key question of whether the individual mandate is constitutional. The commerce clause of the Constitution will feature heavily in the debate. For a history of the court's opinions on commerce clause cases, click here.

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David Frum

David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.

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