To: Mike Fieschko
Barry was against the civil rights legislation because at that time, it was a nearly unprecedented expansion of the Federal government regulation of 'interstate commerce": effectively making anything and everything interstate commerce, and he oppsed it because the legislation was in his view, properly a matter for the States to decide, not Washington. And we know that the States had a wonderful record in that regard, right?
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08/26/2004 8:26:44 PM PDT by
rdb3
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To: rdb3
And we know that the States had a wonderful record in that regard, right?
I've gotta take this as sarcastic, even if you didn't 'close the html'.
Unfortunately, arguing 'States' rights' as a reason for opposing Federal government expansion opens up the argument that 'you'd be in favor of Jim Crow laws'. That's one reason I included Barry's argument that the civil rights laws were unconstitutional as regulating intrastate commerce.
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