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To: Ol' Sparky
Doesn't matter what I or you think. The fact is the federal government does not have the authority to make me do anything. My state has the right to tell me I can't drive drunk or kill kittens. That is the point.

The constitution is a limit on the power of the fed not an enumeration of my rights. That is the way our government was designed and that's the way it should be. Let the state's enumerate rights to their hearts content, it's their power under the constitution so long as it does not violate those expressly enumerated in the amendments clause.

You want drugs outlawed then pass an amendment and we'll call it square. Obviously the congress of the twenties thought that's what they needed to do to make alcohol illegal. At least they didn't shred the founding document of our country out of some pious belief in protecting the population (only to enslave them later). Franklin would have been disappointed in your view of using the Fed to make you safe from dopers.

59 posted on 03/30/2010 12:26:18 PM PDT by RockyMtnMan
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To: RockyMtnMan
My state has the right to tell me I can't drive drunk or kill kittens.

And, all states have a right to outlaw drug usage as they should be.

That doesn't mean that the Federal government doesn't have the authority to stop drug trafficking.

61 posted on 03/30/2010 12:48:46 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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