In a message dated 4/30/03 1:21:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> On the states rights issue< such laws as the A.D.A., the Civil Rights
> Act, the IDEA, and the Rehab act, may be classified as unconstitutional,
> because they void the sovereignty of the states by congress.   In
> effect, the advocates for states rights now make the states into little
> nations with little accountability to Washington as to the handling of
> federal funds or otherissues.

There is a certain irony in the States' rights thing that I view as
hypocritical. The states pass a law that the feds don't like, such as the
marijuana thing in California, and the feds say they can't do that, so that
prop 209 I think it was, was passed by a substantial margin, but the feds
came clashing down on it.

Mag

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