If there's one good thing about ObamaCare...

...it's that Congress ramming unwanted legislation down the country's throat has caused many Americans, myself included, to take a closer look at what the Constitution actually says, and to agree that it's a good thing that there's a document limiting how much power the federal government has.

I knew about the Democrats' lame attempts to justify forcing all of us to buy insurance as a legal government power under the commerce clause. Right...because not buying something constitutes commerce. Judge Vinson was quite right to show the absurdity of this creative reading of the Constitution and how it would quite literally give Congress the power to force us all to buy whatever food, clothing, shelter, or any other product it can label as necessary.

I did not know that, following the earlier strikedown of ObamaCare's individual mandate on the grounds that the commerce clause doesn't justify it, that the Democrats had turned to a new "argument" based on the Necessary and Proper Clause. As the Wall Street Journal puts it, "That clause empowers Congress to enact 'all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution' its enumerated powers." Oh, that little thing about the powers having to be enumerated first? Not too meaningful to liberals who think they know best.

As lawmakers who want to do whatever they want love to cry, the Constitution is not, in fact, a perfect document. For example, as originally written, it allowed for slavery in America; as amended, it allows for income taxation. But, imperfect as it may be, it still provides limits on what the government may do, and it makes the process for expanding those limits difficult on purpose. That's so that it's not easy for power-hungry lawmakers to run roughshod over the rights of Americans.

I hope that ObamaCare's defeats continue to get the American people interested in what the Constitution actually says and why it was written that way.