johnwk
02-24-2017, 08:35 AM
See Trump administration signals a possible crackdown on states over marijuana (http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-marijuana-20170223-story.html)
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
”The White House on Thursday put states that have legalized recreational-use marijuana on notice that federal law enforcement agents could be targeting them soon.
It was the clearest warning yet that the Trump administration may move to disrupt the marijuana trade in the eight states, including California, that have legalized the recreational use of pot.”
Keep in mind it took a constitutional amendment, Section two of the 18th Amendment, to allow our federal government to enter the states to prohibit the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors. But this power was repealed by the 21st Amendment!
So, where is the grant of power in our federal Constitution allowing the federal government to enter the states to prohibit the growth, sale, use or transportation of marijuana within the various State borders?
And just what are our federal government’s authorized powers as summarized by one of our Founders?
Federalist Paper No. 45 tells us:
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.
The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.”
JWK
The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing; if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained? ______ MARBURY v. MADISON, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
”The White House on Thursday put states that have legalized recreational-use marijuana on notice that federal law enforcement agents could be targeting them soon.
It was the clearest warning yet that the Trump administration may move to disrupt the marijuana trade in the eight states, including California, that have legalized the recreational use of pot.”
Keep in mind it took a constitutional amendment, Section two of the 18th Amendment, to allow our federal government to enter the states to prohibit the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors. But this power was repealed by the 21st Amendment!
So, where is the grant of power in our federal Constitution allowing the federal government to enter the states to prohibit the growth, sale, use or transportation of marijuana within the various State borders?
And just what are our federal government’s authorized powers as summarized by one of our Founders?
Federalist Paper No. 45 tells us:
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.
The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.”
JWK
The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing; if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained? ______ MARBURY v. MADISON, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)