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To: jerry557
The States have a right to do this. It is perfectly constitutional.

As long as other clauses of the Constitution are not violated in the process. Would this be an illegal dilution of the vote of a Mass. citizen (Equal Protection argument)? If there is a trigger clause as some states consider to say the law only goes into effect of a certain percentage of other states adopt similar laws is this a violation of the No Compact clause (Article I Section 10)?

107 posted on 07/27/2010 6:31:02 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Obama suffers from decision-deficit disorder." Oliver North 6/25/10)
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To: NonValueAdded

States have a right to decide how to allocate their electoral votes, but they may not enter into compacts or agreements with other states. Here’s the pertinent part of the Constitution:

Section 10 - Powers prohibited of States...

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

If passing a bill that will not go into effect until the same provision is passed by other states is not a compact or agreement with those other states, what is?

I believe that this is completely unconstitutional.


119 posted on 07/27/2010 9:53:15 PM PDT by nailspitter
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