[HurkinMcGurkin]

That's an act that makes States have the 21 year old law or they don't get highway funds from the feds. There is no federal law prohibiting States from changing their laws.

[aristeides]

Actually, there are two substantive due process cases from the 1920's that are sort of the ancestors of the right-to-privacy cases and that Kennedy's opinion today cited with approval. They are Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925) (right of a parent to choose to send a child to a Catholic school, despite a state law against it), and Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923) (right of a parent to send a child to a German-language school, despite a state law against it).

[yonif]

That's an act that makes States have the 21 year old law or they don't get highway funds from the feds. There is no federal law prohibiting States from changing their laws.

OK. Thank you for that clarification!

[MineralMan]

"That's an act that makes States have the 21 year old law or they don't get highway funds from the feds. There is no federal law prohibiting States from changing their laws."

Right. Any state can lower the drinking age to 12 if they want to. They'll have to forgo th Federal highway funds, of course, since those are a Federal issue, but what the heck?

I don't think any states are considering this, though. Maybe the Free Staters would take another view, if they could get more than a few thousand supporters.