At 01:58 PM 8/23/97 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
This I agree with completely. At no point in the Constitution does it give the federal government the job of welfare. It also does not provide for any mechanism for law enforcement (ie DEA, NSA, FBI, etc.) outside of taxes and inter-state commerce.
So we are all in agreement: when I mentioned Norplant briefly being a precondition for receiving welfare benefits, I was talking about a example that I recall to have occurred in a single state. [I can't remember the state. Anyone?] It appears you agree that States are allowed by the US Constitution to impose such requirements, subject to the state's own constitutions. --Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/