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To: Jim 0216

You are WRONG. A FEDERAL Court decision some time ago determined that ALL RIGHTS guaranteed under the US Constitution are extended to ALL CITIZENS.
This criminal incremental erosion of the Second Amendment has to stop.
The Constitution, by extending voting rights to 18 year old PLUS the statutory tradition of nearly every state PLUS the voting age, effectively recognizes 18 year olds as ADULTS entitled to FULL LEGAL RIGHTS, including alcohol consumption and tobacco use.

It’s time to straighten this out. You can’t try Cruz as an adult and legally treat him as a juvenile!


85 posted on 03/09/2018 9:04:46 PM PST by ZULU (End the Obama/Holder "Promise" program, FIRE Runcie, the $335,000 Broward Co. Stupidintendent of Sc)
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To: ZULU
The Constitution, by extending voting rights to 18 year old PLUS the statutory tradition of nearly every state PLUS the voting age, effectively recognizes 18 year olds as ADULTS entitled to FULL LEGAL RIGHTS, including alcohol consumption and tobacco use.

I tend to agree, but if that's really true, then why has the legal drinking age in Florida been 21 for decades, without having been overturned?

86 posted on 03/09/2018 9:06:46 PM PST by sargon (ATTENTION ILLINOIS FREEPERS: please read my post on the FR Illinois bulletin board...)
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To: ZULU
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof...shall be the supreme Law of the Land.
U.S. Constitution, Art. VI, Clause 2.

The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land and trumps federal law.

[T]he right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Id., Amendment II.

The Constitution does not grant ANY rights to the states or the people. It PROTECTS the PRE-EXISTING rights of the states and the people against federal incursion or "infringement".

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Id., Amendment X.

All rights not expressly delegated to the feds or prohibited to the states are RESERVED to the states and the people. The Constitution delegates NO authority to the feds regarding gun regulations, nor does it prohibit bearing arms to the states. Quite the opposite. The Constitution REMINDS the feds - HANDS OFF regarding the right to bear arms. The right to bear arms is a state's issue along with all the other rights outside constitutional proscription.

Nowhere does the Constitution delegate to the feds the power to enforce all rights guaranteed under the US Constitution. Thus, the judge's decision is strictly unconstitutional, and should be ignored, voided, and nullified.

113 posted on 03/10/2018 7:07:13 AM PST by Jim W N
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