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To: Ken H
So where does the Constitution delegate authority to fedgov to impose national prohibition, in your personal opinion?

Non sequitir.

13 posted on 10/30/2011 12:35:31 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Look what I just found...

Amendment X

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.

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So where, in your opinion, does the Constitution delegate to fedgov the power to impose national prohibition?

17 posted on 10/30/2011 12:43:58 PM PDT by Ken H (They are running out of other people's money. )
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To: the invisib1e hand; Ken H

>>>right. drug war is evil, ergo legal sanction of drug use is good.
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>>So where does the Constitution delegate authority to fedgov to impose national prohibition, in your personal opinion?
>
>Non sequitir.

No, it actually isn’t.
Because if the federal government does not have the authority to regulate drugs, then those laws are illegitimate.
If those laws are illegitimate, then enforcement thereof is itself illegal: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/718/usc_sec_18_00000242——000-.html


68 posted on 10/31/2011 6:19:44 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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