i have a research paper due tomorrow and its over the drinking age. and i have to use an example out of the constitution and explain how it relates to the topic. I f you could give me section that relates to it i would be much appreciative.
2006-09-07 10:07:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
I didnt put this paper off until the last minute i was absent the day she assigned it and only had last night and tonight to work on it and i got the first half wrote last night and im writng the second half tonight. The second half is over the constitution.
2006-09-07 10:28:52 · update #1
the 18 and 21
2006-09-07 10:27:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should really do your own homework, but this is a really complicated issue. Technically, state laws regarding the drinking age are constitutional because of the 10th Amendment, which 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." However, there's a law on the books called the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, passed in 1984 after intensinve lobbying by MADD and other groups, which requires all states to set the drinking age at 21 in order to receive federal highway funds. This is an outgrowth of the failure of tempernce oragizations to enforce prohibition after the 19th Amendment was enacted. For full information, check out http://www.youthrights.org/legana.html.
How this act itself is constitutional, I can't say, unless Congress used the Interstate Commerce Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) of the Constitution as the basis, re its authority to regulate commerce between the states which would relate to federal highway funds; basically, the federal government holds this money over the heads of state legislators in order to influence state laws. This is an example of a mandate.
Some states, however, appear to have loopholes in their minimum drinking age laws. For fuller information on this, and on the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, see
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/alcohol/Community%20Guides%20HTML/PDFs/Public_App7.pdf#search='Constitution%2C%20legal%20drinking%20age'.
2006-09-07 17:47:52 · answer #2 · answered by nacmanpriscasellers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the 18th and 21st amendment if memory serves me correctly deal with prohibition and it being repealed. While not directly relevant to your question, it is a start. You also may want to look at Article 4 of the Constitution that covers state powers and limits. I think the question you were given is an abstract question that wants you to search for a general area in which a law can be created and enforced by each state as opposed to a specific law stated in the Constitution itself. Good Luck.
2006-09-07 17:18:37 · answer #3 · answered by Rugby Mania 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm not quite sure that there is an amendment relating to drinking age, unless it is from the retractment of prohibition, where they brought back in the booze says something about it...
heres a brazren thought! 1) read the constitution (specfically post 1930 and 2) don't put off your research papers till the last minute!
just a thought ;-) Luck
2006-09-07 17:13:54 · answer #4 · answered by Max 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Constitution has Amendments 18 (I think) and 21 that say anything about drinking. 18 says 'No one may comsume alcohol' but that didn't work so Amendment 21 came in saying 'yes, people may consume alcohol... if they are or over the drinking age.' The drinking age is the choice of the State, whether they make it 16 or 21 or 32, as long as the state agrees.
2006-09-07 17:12:53 · answer #5 · answered by lolz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
too bad it's due tomorrow why did you wait so long? Have a beer and chill out dude.
2006-09-07 17:12:49 · answer #6 · answered by waplambadoobatawhopbamboo 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
check the bill of rights...I think it is there.
2006-09-07 17:12:17 · answer #7 · answered by Dyma 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋