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To: Still Thinking

There is simply no way state laws can trump federal law unless the feds allow it. Remember the “supremacy” clause of the Constitution? Anyone who challenges this will spend Christmas in the “gray bar Hilton.”


6 posted on 12/09/2009 2:53:50 PM PST by RanGreHad
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To: RanGreHad

Or unless a substantial portion of the states view the feds finding in their own favor as illegitimate, especially since it furthers current federal overreaching, and simply ignore them. What are the feds going to do, start a shooting war?


8 posted on 12/09/2009 3:02:54 PM PST by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: RanGreHad

“There is simply no way state laws can trump federal law unless the feds allow it. Remember the “supremacy” clause of the Constitution?”

Remember the 10th Amendment?

Sure there is a way, if the Constitution were actually followed. The Federal government has ZERO Constitutional authority to regulate commerce within a state. The Commerce Clause only legally applies to commerce BETWEEN states so that trade barriers can tariffs could not be erected between states.

This whole “substantive effects” BS was invented to expand Federal power.


24 posted on 12/09/2009 5:52:09 PM PST by Favor Center (Targets Up! Hold hard and favor center!)
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