November 27, 2020
Time to Abolish Unconstitutional and Useless Mask Mandates
By William Sullivan
You have "no constitutional right to walk around without a mask," says the Republican governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan. You'll invariably hear such declarative statements as a line of defense by those who support government mask mandates. The problem with such statements is that they are a response to the wrong question.
You see, the salient question is not about which individual rights have been so granted by the powers of government (the Founders were clear that God, not government, grants rights to citizens), but about how the powers of government are limited by the Constitution.
In short, the question is not "does an individual American have the right to walk around without wearing a mask?" The appropriate question is, "where in the Constitution is the power for the government to coerce Americans to wear masks explicitly defined?" When framed that way, it should be obvious to even the most dimwitted totalitarian that the truthful answers to both questions are inextricably linked.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/time_to_abolish_unconstitutional_and_useless_mask_mandates.html
