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To: Dead Corpse
Using your logic, a State can bring back slavery.

Under its own Constitution, it could. But U.S. Constitution might have something to say about it. Not the case with laws regulating video games.

41 posted on 07/19/2004 9:54:49 AM PDT by inquest (Judges are given the power to decide cases, not to decide law)
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To: inquest; Dead Corpse
"Using your logic, a State can bring back slavery."
Under its own Constitution, it could. But U.S. Constitution might have something to say about it.

Actually, a State CAN bring back slavery, under limited circumstances

Thirteenth Amendment: "Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. "

Commit a felony, and there's nothing in the Constitution that would prevent a state from making you pick cotton for the rest of your life. States would have chain-gangs of criminals doing road repair in the South in the early 20th Century

52 posted on 07/19/2004 4:12:17 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (That which does not kill me had better be able to run away damn fast.)
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