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1、AFFORDABLECONVERGENCE:“REASONABLEINTERPRETATION”ANDTHEAFFORDABLECAREACTMarthaMinow∗TheconstitutionoftheUnitedStatesistoreceiveareasonablein-terpretationofitslanguage,anditspowers,keepinginviewtheob-jectsandpurposes,forwhichthosepowerswereconferred.Byarea-sonableinterpretation,wemean,thatincaset
2、hewordsaresusceptibleoftwodifferentsenses,theonestrict,theothermoreenlarged,thatshouldbeadopted,whichismostconsonantwiththeapparentobjectsandintentoftheconstitution....—JosephStory(1833)1ThattheCourtwassharplydividedwasnotasurprise.Thecon-trastingbriefs—includingarecord136fromamici—laidoutthedi
3、spute.2Overtheextraordinarysixhoursoforalargument,theJus-ticesactivelyinterruptedtheadvocates,withJusticesGinsburg,Breyer,Sotomayor,andKagandirectingconsiderablymorewordstothechallengers,andChiefJusticeRobertsandJusticesScalia,Kenne-dy,andAlitothemirrorimage,directingfarmoreoftheirwordstothegov
4、ernment.3SoitwasnotasurprisetofindthattheJusticespro-ducedtwostarklywarringopinions.Onewouldstrikedownasun-–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––∗DeanandJeremiahSmith,Jr.Professor,HarvardLawSchool.ThankstoNewtonMinow,DavidBarron,LaniGuinier,DanMeltzer,GillianMetzger,JoeSi
5、nger,LarryTribe,SteveWeiner,andtheeditorsoftheHarvardLawReviewforhelpfulcomments.13JOSEPHSTORY,COMMENTARIESONTHECONSTITUTIONOFTHEUNITEDSTATES§419(Boston,Hillard,Gray&Co.1833).2GregStohr,RecordNumberofAmicusBriefsFiledinHealthCareCases,BLOOMBERGNEWS(Mar.15,2012,12:55PM),http://go.bloomberg.com/h
6、ealth-care-supreme-court/2012-03-15/record-number-of-amicus-briefs-filed-in-health-care-cases/.3SeeDavidLauter,BadOmenforHealthcareLaw:ManyCommentsfromtheJustices,L.A.TIMES(Mar.30,2012),http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/30/news/la-pn-bad-omen-for-health-care-law-many-comments-from-the-justic
7、es-20120329;BreakdownoftheJustices’Discussions,L.A.TIMES(Mar.30,2012),http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/la-pn-bad-omen-for-health-care-law-many-commen-002,0,1291809.photo(displayingstatisticaldatacom-piledbyProfe
