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Originally Posted by pan6467
Same as with the medicinal marijuana.... If a state's population voted FOR the issue the Feds have NO RIGHT whatsoever to overturn that election unless it breaks a CONSTITUTIONAL law and not some fucking Federal mandate.
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I'm not exactly sure what you mean by a "Federal mandate". If you mean an excessively controlling, but technically constitutional law, then you are incorrect. There is no problem with federal law being used to override the wishes of the population of a state, provided that the power in question is granted to the Congress by the Constitution.
If, on the other hand, you mean to say that "Federal mandate[s]" are unconstitutional federal laws, then you are, of course correct.
I imagine what we are dealing with here is an interstate commerce issue, which seems like BS to me, but what do I know about Con Law? 
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