[tfecw]

I was going to mention the 10th but I wasn't sure. I'm publik school edumicated and this Constitution thing is still new to me ;) (semi sarcasm, it's mostly my laziness to blame for the lack of knowledge) I got thrown by "the right to drink" piece of your question.

The constitution doesn't say you have a right to drink, but the 10th basically tosses everything that's not mentioned in the Constitution back to the states and people but says powers and not rights. So I got the impression that if VA had a law saying you have to be 21 to drink doesn't give me the "right" to drink if I'm 21. It just says it's legal, which could eventually change.

Or did i get to deep into semantics and think to hard about the difference between a right and being allowed to.

[dirtboy]

So I got the impression that if VA had a law saying you have to be 21 to drink doesn't give me the "right" to drink if I'm 21. It just says it's legal, which could eventually change.

Congratulations! You're more qualified to sit on the Supreme Court than most of the current sitting justices!

[Zavien Doombringer]

WOOOHOOO a winner!

[Haru Hara Haruko]

And don't look too closely at those drinking laws.

They treat 18 year old adults differently from 21 year old adults. Let's see... where is the constitutional authority for THAT?

So you see how defective laws can be. If they can baldly treat two adults differently based on age, the law sausage factory clearly does not have the same quality control in place at the drafting of the Constitution.