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To: Rockingham
Raich is yet another matter because it deals with the prohibition of marijuana, something that virtually all states and the federal government agree on

But not all, thus violating the sovereignty of the state that doesn't want to prohibit it. If California wants to be the state that attracts all the stoners, then so be it. That's within the power of the people of California.

73 posted on 10/16/2009 10:30:51 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
The states are not 'sovereign' but have some powers reserved to them within the federal system. These powers do include nullification of federal law and the laws of sister states.

If California or another state legalizes marijuana or slavery or the manufacture and private possession of weaponized anthrax spores, hand grenades, or truck bombs, it subverts the respective federal and state bans. No system could survive in which one state could permit and enable what the federal government and other states categorically prohibit. Yet that is what your view of the Commerce Clause supposes.

120 posted on 10/16/2009 11:55:40 AM PDT by Rockingham
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