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To: billbears
And for some reason Congress didn't go into a frenzy of passing legislation on it.

HUH?! What exactly was the Volstead Act if it wasn't legislation?

No, I do believe you can stand on the street corner and say anything and everything. However when you cross the line and lobby the federal government to legislate morality (a responsibility of the separate and sovereign states) you should be rightly ignored.

Got it, lobbying the federal government on moral issues is unprotected speech.

Since you think that the individual states should be able to determine if child pornography is a crime, what happens when one of them legalizes child pornography? Does the equal protection clause still apply if someone legally purchases child pornography and brings it into another state?

279 posted on 08/16/2007 7:59:29 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
HUH?! What exactly was the Volstead Act if it wasn't legislation?

Wow!! The Volstead Act was passed by the Framers?!?! I never knew. Man those guys must have been old if they were up for passing that 130 years later. A fine example of Progressives in action however

282 posted on 08/16/2007 8:03:59 AM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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