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To: Texaggie79
They have the constitutional ability to prohibit alcohol completely even. The Constitution does not prevent stupid state laws.

But the sovriegnity of the individual does!

153 posted on 03/04/2002 12:41:38 PM PST by southern rock
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To: southern rock
But the sovriegnity of the individual does!

Not living under the protection of a government.

To understand this the better, it is fit to consider that every man when he at first incorporates himself into any commonwealth, he, by his uniting himself thereunto, annexes also, and submits to the community those possessions which he has, or shall acquire, that do not already belong to any other government. For it would be a direct contradiction for any one to enter into society with others for the securing and regulating of property, and yet to suppose his land, whose property is to be regulated by the laws of the society, should be exempt from the jurisdiction of that government to which he himself, and the property of the land, is a subject. -- John Locke

158 posted on 03/04/2002 12:45:15 PM PST by Texaggie79
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