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To: MalPearce
I think most Americans would have kittens if federal government or states started banning gas or diesel motorcars

The federal government has no Constitutional authority to do such a thing. Similarly, the Federal government has no Constitutional authority to invent out of nothing a "right" to abortion. You know perfectly well that the Constitution is utterly silent on the matter. So did that unmitigated, power hungry scoundrel Harry Blackmun. Roe v. Wad was BAD CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. Only an enemy of the Constitution would support it.

58 posted on 06/30/2022 10:15:42 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

If they have no such authority, where did the 18th Amendment (Prohibition, and its later abolition) alterations come from?

The logic around constitutionality rather falls down when 103 years ago the USA was able to do that. There’s no natural right to get drunk and no natural obligation to ban it.

The basis of a ban on the sale of alcohol was, decades of lobbying by teetotallers and religious leaders saying it would ameliorate poverty and other societal problems.

That’s the precedent. If a powerful enough lobby had the support in Washington and its argument for a ban on the sale of gas guzzlers would ameliorate pollution and other envoy problems, what would prevent it being passed as an amendment (which could then be repealed by further amendments)?


65 posted on 06/30/2022 1:20:59 PM PDT by MalPearce
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