Judicial Branch

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-08-12-health-care-ruling_n.htm?loc=interstitialskip

In this article they are talking about how the 11th Court of Appeals decided that Congress was going too far with its authority to pass the individual mandate.  "Chief Judge Joel Dubina and Circuit Judge Frank Hull, found that lawmakers cannot require residents to "enter into contracts with private insurance companies for the purchase of an expensive product from the time they are born until the time they die." (2nd paragraph of the article)  They continue to say that the Congress' power has slowly started to grow over the past 2 centuries. normally the Congress has the authority to create rules that deal with larger areas in the national economy.

This relates to the unit we are studying by how President Jefferson believed by having too many Federalists in the Congress it would start to shift the balance of power in the US. this was why the President decided to disregard all of the signed commissions, and not send them out so that way the power that was at a balance was not overturned to just one branch, but be able to stay the same in all of them.