Current Issue

Volume 75 2012 Number 3

The Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act: Ideas From the Academy

Neil S. Siegel
Special Editor

Foreword

Neil S. Siegel i

Articles
Political Ideology and Constitutional Decisionmaking: The Coming Example of the Affordable Care Act

Erwin Chemerinsky 1
The Uneasy Case for the Affordable Care Act

Stephen E. Sachs 17
Free Riding on Benevolence: Collective Action Federalism and the Minimum Coverage Provision

Neil S. Siegel 29
A Mandate for Mandates: Is the Individual Health Insurance Case a Slippery Slope?

Ilya Somin 75
Constitutional Mortality: Precedential Effects of Striking the Individual Mandate

Mark A. Hall 107
Bootstrapping

Stuart M. Benjamin 115
What We Fret About When We Fret About Bootstrapping

Joseph Blocher 145
Popular Constitutionalism and the Underenforcement Problem: The Case of The National Healthcare Law

Ernest A. Young 157
On the Difficulty of Separating Law And Politics: Federalism and the Affordable Care Act

Bryan Leitch 203
Of Icebergs and Glaciers: The Submerged Constitution of American Healthcare

Theodore W. Ruger 215