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To: freeeee
That's real funny, considering it's the same lack of respect for the 10th Amendment that allows the WoD and Roe V Wade to stand.

Roe v. Wade invented a "Constitional right" to commit abortions out of thin air. The contention that there is a "Constitutional right" to manufacture, sell and use illicit drugs invents such a "right" out of smoke.

100 posted on 10/08/2002 11:50:14 AM PDT by Roscoe
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To: Roscoe
Roe v. Wade invented a "Constitional right" to commit abortions out of thin air. The contention that there is a "Constitutional right" to manufacture, sell and use illicit drugs invents such a "right" out of smoke.

Apples and oranges. The former "right" is wielded against state sovereignty; the latter right is (usually) not. (The latter is also firmly grounded in the plain text of the Constitution, unlike the former.)

103 posted on 10/08/2002 11:53:32 AM PDT by MrLeRoy
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To: Roscoe
Roe v. Wade invented a "Constitional right" to commit abortions out of thin air.

Not at all. R-v-W, in effect, told states to obey the 14th amendment in the writing of abortion law. Outright prohibition of abortion was declared unconstitutional for a number of specified reasons. - Read it.

The contention that there is a "Constitutional right" to manufacture, sell and use illicit drugs invents such a "right" out of smoke.

Cut out the word "illicit", and the idiocy of your position is apparent. - Obviously there is a right to make, sell & use drugs. There has never been a granted power to ANY level of government to prohibit such activites.
- Drugs can be regulated, using constitutional laws and enforcement, as per the 14th. They can not be prohibited, as the act of prohibition violates other basic constitutional rights.

126 posted on 10/08/2002 12:55:43 PM PDT by tpaine
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