This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Tuesday, December 17th, 2013.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Obamacare's path from an idea to legislation to its ultimate survival of a constitutional

challenge is a dramatic story.

Told in Josh Blackman's new book, Unprecedent.

He spoke at the Cato Institute in September.

Why is this law-so-un precedent?

Well, there are a number of firsts.

One first, never before in the 20th century has Congress tried to pass a law of such

significance in a straight party line vote. The president made the

determination that he did not need any Republican support to pass this law,

just get the votes will be done with it.

So later that that would not be the case could need other support when the law is implemented,

but this was a straight party line vote.

It was also unprecedented. Never before had Congress forced people to buy a commercial product.

There have been some laws about making people in the militia, get rifles, and things like that,

but this was a unique law that forced

to do something.

And never before has a constitutional argument

developed so quickly, so rapidly, with so much significance significance and spread all the

to the Supreme Court less than two years.

My good friend Randy is one of the key

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