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Cato Video • December 29, 2010 

# Randy Barnett discusses ObamaCare and the Commerce Clause. 

The individual mandate in ObamaCare represents a dramatic and unprecedented expansion of federal power. Randy Barnett, Cato Institute Senior fellow and a constitutional law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, argues on C‑SPAN that the Commerce Clause grants the federal government no such authority. 

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