Weak Constitution
A few days ago, I declared in the course of some rant or other that "the Consitution is a dead letter if there is no political will to abide by it." Here's a case in point. The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows:
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.
If you read the rest of the Articles and Amendments, you will not see anything in there about, say, drug laws. In fact, it took another Amendment, the 18th, to make alcohol a prohibited substance during the "noble experiment" of the 1920s, because, apparently, it could not be done by simple act of Congress. So when a state decides - through referendum, no less - to relax its drug laws and allow its citizens to use marijuana for medical purposes, where does the federal government get off doing shit like this?
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