Actually, the Twenty-First Amendment was written to ensure that it did not guarantee such a right:
The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
The effects of Section 2 are at least two-fold. First, Federal control over interstate commerce was abridged; in the absence of this section, states could have prohibitted domestic manufacture and purely intra-state transactions, but inter-state sales would have remained the province of the national government. Second, any significance here of the Fourteenth Amendment is also
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I liked the sentiment of having a constitutional right to drink. Thanks for the explanation since I was intellectually lazy. (You may now sentence me to lashing with a wet noodle.)
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the majority of the town of Burleson, less areas within Tarrant County, was dry until voters overturned that last month. I snickered when I found it the town had been dry since I knew the town as the place where it's illegal to sell adult toys (cf. Joanne Webb) and a state representative said at a school board meeting: "I have never read To Kill a Mockingbird but, if it has those words [profanities] in it, it doesn't belong in our schools."
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I was also pretty stunned that people didn't get the reference. I mean, duh. (I didn't watch the ep but I did read come commentary on TWoP.)
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I read the medical commentary at Polite Dissent.
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The effects of Section 2 are at least two-fold. First, Federal control over interstate commerce was abridged; in the absence of this section, states could have prohibitted domestic manufacture and purely intra-state transactions, but inter-state sales would have remained the province of the national government. Second, any significance here of the Fourteenth Amendment is also ( ... )
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In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the majority of the town of Burleson, less areas within Tarrant County, was dry until voters overturned that last month. I snickered when I found it the town had been dry since I knew the town as the place where it's illegal to sell adult toys (cf. Joanne Webb) and a state representative said at a school board meeting: "I have never read To Kill a Mockingbird but, if it has those words [profanities] in it, it doesn't belong in our schools."
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