Re:Washington man facing prison after foraging for wild psil...
by eesmith on Saturday August 19, 2017 @05:00AM
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No, it isn't. The U.S. Constitution as originally written specifically to limit federal power.
The 10th amendment says: "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."
It wasn't not written to be a general-purpose commentary about what laws should be.
Remember, it was also written to allow people to be property. It also says that there is freedom of religion, but that was at the federal level. Some states had official state churches for a few decades more.
The 10th amendment says: "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."
It wasn't not written to be a general-purpose commentary about what laws should be.
Remember, it was also written to allow people to be property. It also says that there is freedom of religion, but that was at the federal level. Some states had official state churches for a few decades more.