[Sonny M]

Help me out here freepers, under what part of the law, was raising the drinking age legal? I'm assuming the 10th amendment is whats used, but does that contracdict the 21st amendment and the 9th amendment? What was the supreme court reasoning on that case?

[Coleus]

The 10th amendment? Abraham Lincoln took care of that a long time ago.

I think each state passed their own age-appropriate laws for drinking. In this case the 10th amendment is working.

As far as drunk driving, the 10th amendment was pushed aside since the feds will with hold our money until the states change the legal limit to .08 by a certain year. True the aren't forcing us in one way, but the other way is extortion. They take our taxes then don't give the states the money until we do what the feds want.

[Dimensio]

I may be remembering incorrectly, but IIRC the drinking age laws are all state-determined. It's just that the Federal government will withold highway funds to states whose minimum drinking age is less than 21. As such, it's technically not a federal matter, at least not in a direct fashion that could be managed by the courts.