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To: cotton1706
But if we moved back to the original understanding, a state legislature could ban the practice, if necessary.

Don't think so.

Not unless the People gave the legislature the authority to tell them what they could possess or ingest.

Oh, that's right. The People, not possessing that restrictive power ourselves, are incapable of giving something we don't possess to anyone.

Darn! It's that pesky Freedom thing again. :-)

22 posted on 02/21/2006 8:02:32 AM PST by MamaTexan (I am NOT a ~legal entity~, nor am I a *person* as created by law!)
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To: MamaTexan

The people themselves have full power restrict what the government can do, as they have with the Federal Government. My comment was not intended to suggest that the people could not prohibit a legislature from passing such a law as they did the Congress.


45 posted on 02/21/2006 8:14:14 AM PST by cotton1706
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