SLWK 422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Conservatism, Misdemeanor, Neoconservatism
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Who: president (federal), governor (state), mayor (city). What: implements laws by developing programs to carry out policy mandates. Who: senators, congresspeople (federal and state), city council (city). What: makes new laws and makes changes to existing laws. What: judicial branch enforces laws as written by legislative branch. A closer look: three court cases that have challenged the affordable care act. Individual mandate upheld by supreme court in 2012. Scotus blog: the affordable care act, including its individual mandate that virtually all americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the ground that congress could use its power to regulate commerce between the states to require everyone to buy health insurance. However, five justices agreed that the penalty that someone must pay if he refuses to buy insurance is a kind of tax that. Burwell v. hobby lobby challenged the contraceptive mandate.
