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To: eleni121
Where is the Amendment to the US Constitution guranteeing my right to crack cocaine?

Actually the 10th Amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

There is no Federal right to conduct a drug war because it is not specifically called out in the Constitution. It is done under the "Commerce Clause" and came about after Roosevelt castrated the Supreme Court. Now they are just poodles of Congress and the Executive and serve no legitimate purpose since they abandoned the Constitution.

This does not prevent state from passing laws against cocaine but the Federal Drug War is completely unconstitutional since that power is not enumerated in the Constitution.

Nowadays neither liberals nor conservatives have any respect for the Constitution, but I guarantee that when they right the epithat of this once great country the Drug War will be one of the main reasons we went from freedom to tyranny.
220 posted on 01/06/2008 6:14:29 PM PST by microgood
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To: microgood
"This does not prevent state from passing laws against cocaine"

This raid was conducted by local authorities enforcing state law. Based on that fact, I assume you approve.

361 posted on 01/07/2008 5:26:50 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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