Illegal Regulations
Panel Votes to Allow Regulation of Cigarettes - New York Times
A Senate committee approved legislation that would allow federal regulation of cigarettes for the first time.
Bravo for the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. There's just one little problem. Regardless of how long I pore over Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, I can't find anything granting Congress the power to regulate cigarettes. Nor do I found -- anywhere in the Constitution -- anything granting Congress the authority to grant itself more authority.
Quite the contrary. The Constitution grants Congress a very limited, specific, and well-defined list of powers.
If Congress does ultimately start regulating cigarettes, who's disobeying the law? Those that ignore the new regulations or the Congress that illegally passed the regulations in the first place?
This entry was tagged. Government Regulation