[freepatriot32]

I've read the constitution a few times in my life all the way throuh and ill be damned if i can find anything in there that give the federal government the authority to protect all waterfowl.Maybe I need the special supreme court issued captian midnight decoder ring that lets people see all the astrics that are sprinkled throughtout the constitution that us ignorant serfs fail to see when we read it though.

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[tomswiftjr]

Go here (http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/migtrea.html), Migratory Bird Treaty of 1918. Found constitutional in the 1920s.

[lesser_satan]

I think the rational is that since the birds are migratory, they don't fall under the jurisdiction of any particular state, and must be regulated federally. I'm not saying I completely agree, just that's where they're coming from.