Fair-Weather federalism
06/15/05
Conservatives who have no love of marijuana -- medical or otherwise -- may end up regretting the Supreme Court's decision last week in Gonzales v. Raich. In matters of constitutional jurisprudence, the lodestar of principled conservatism is the Tenth Amendment, which holds that, '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.' The Tenth Amendment is the clearest constitutional expression of the American federalist structure, which is not only America's unique contribution to world political theory, but also the primary factor that has preserved America as one of the freest countries in the world...
http://www.azconservative.org/Jenney.htm
from Arizona Conservative, by Tom Jenney
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Conservatives who have no love of marijuana -- medical or otherwise -- may end up regretting the Supreme Court's decision last week in Gonzales v. Raich. In matters of constitutional jurisprudence, the lodestar of principled conservatism is the Tenth Amendment, which holds that, '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.' The Tenth Amendment is the clearest constitutional expression of the American federalist structure, which is not only America's unique contribution to world political theory, but also the primary factor that has preserved America as one of the freest countries in the world...
http://www.azconservative.org/Jenney.htm
from Arizona Conservative, by Tom Jenney
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 20. Jun, 16:12
