Yeah, pompous. Trying to save someone here, while their enablers here are grousing about oh, we can’t get our pot. Boo-hoo.
Pompous, brainlocked old geezer. Such a perfect caricature of what the left believes Freepers to be.
I habe never advocated legalization. That’s yet another wrong assumption on your part.
Had you done even a cursory search to inform yourself, you would have discovered that my stating “the Constitution overturned the Common Law” was a quote of George Mason, who refused to put his hand to it because it contained no Bill Of Rights. He was not the only Founder to refuse to do so, there were three. Elbridge Gerry and Edmund Randolph in addition to Mason.
This country was a radical departure from the monarchy from which it separated at the cost of much blood and treasure. To treat the whole amtter as if it were a mere continuance of the same law is foolishness.
I’ll suggest to you that you read the Constitution itself and report back with evidence of thise reliance upon English Common Law upon which you insist so vehemently. The common law is the unwritten law, traditionally speaking, so you’re going to have a tough time of that.