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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster
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To: Bill who wrote (40397)10/28/2010 9:30:48 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (5) of 103300
 
Not according to the Supreme Court.

(Both policies find the entirety of their legitimacy in the courts massive expansion of the "commerce clause"... dating to the early 1970s.)

Remember alcohol prohibition?

The Supreme Court back then believed that actual AMENDMENTS to the US Constitution were required to give the federal government legal authority to control sale of a product that was within a State's purview.

They had to amend the Constitution to get the authority to control the product... then it required yet another amendment to remove their constitutional authority.

With marijuana there was *never* any amendment. The ONLY thing that changed was the Courts expansion of it's INTERPRETATION of what the "commerce clause" grants to federal power.
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