Congress to Consider Raising Tobacco-Buying Age to 21

Wall Street Journal ^ | April 18, 2019 | Jennifer Maloney

[rollo tomasi]

Smoking and drinking have nothing to do with voting and being drafted. Those are State’s right issues. All was well until the Federal government played hardball with the highway funds in 1984.

[Boomer]

So I guess this means everything goes to 21. The Draft. Voting. Legal age of being an adult. Everything. People in America would then be considered juveniles until the age of 21 across the board with no exceptions.

Why not make it 25 or better yet; 30? Kids under 30 seem so clueless so much of the time...

Talk about greasing the slippery slope!

[Amendment10]

Patriots are reminded, regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist Supreme Court justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3) when they wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress’s favor imo, that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified the following.

The states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate INTRAstate commerce.

• "State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." -Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• ”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Regarding Wickard v. Filburn, using inappropriate terms like "concept" and “implicit," here is what was left of the 10th Amendment after FDR's justices got finished with it that case.

"In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [???] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [??? emphases added] in the status of statehood." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.

So by planning to introduce an unconstitutional bill, post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. McConnell is unthinkingly helping to unconstitutionally expand the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s powers imo.

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA!

Corrections, insights welcome.

[kosciusko51]

So you think that it is right for the states to limit those who have the right to vote and the duty to register for the draft not to have the full rights as citizens?

I can understand that for minors, but not for those with voting rights. You make them second-class citizens, even if only for a few years.

[i_robot73]

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Do any of these bozos really think this is what the Founders had in mind when they granted Congress the power to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes?”
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Oh, they certainly know well enough to use today’s English to abuse/twist the definitions of that in the Constitution.

PLENTY of writings/books of the era to indicate what’s what.

It’s a 3-co-equal-circle-jerk w/ the Pleebs in the middle.

I haven’t heard but Dr. Paul and MAYBE one/two others even BOTHER to bring up the topic of *AUTHORIZATION vs. Constitution*

[married21]

We must protect young people’s lungs! Although we can allow them to mutilate themselves to try (unsuccessfully) to change their gender. They can also kill their unborn children, and take hormones in the form of birth control. But all those things have to do with sex, so they are ok. But breathing tobacco smoke? No way!

[Clutch Martin]

“I’ve been saying for years that we should go back to requiring land ownership to be permitted to vote. It’s not a popular opinion, but I don’t see how it’s a bad idea.”

An absolutely sound idea which preserves the constitutional integrity.

[OK_Sam]

Exactly my thought - I am disgusted with these soft RINOs always starting up with irrelevant and unnecessary third level ideas. The Senate has a chance to make huge, positive things happen and should not waste time on trivia.
Besides, it is basically a stupid idea in the first place.

[i_robot73]

>Not within federal authority

R-I-G-H-T. ‘Cuz THAT’S stopped the ‘small-govt’ (R)N(C) before /s

[i_robot73]

>I’m so glad we elected small government Republicans

Just wait ‘til they get FULL control of Congress and watch ‘em ‘work’ /s

[i_robot73]

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Exactly...if teens can process the voters pamphlet and make decisions, then they can process the health issues...(not to mention the sex info forced on them early on). Which way is it Politicians???
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When has the Law, let alone politics, ever been grounded in logic\consistency??

Is sure hasn’t been grounded via the Constitution for AGES

[Chode]

how bout the voting age while they’re at it...