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Old 11-05-2013 | 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by tsquare
Now THAT is interesting.

When you have a federal and state law that conflict, which takes precedence? For example: It is illegal to smoke weed as far as the .gov is concerned, but Colorado says it is OK....

Could the SC law mean another secession from the union? At least THIS time there would be a good reason.
I'm no Newk on this stuff but yes the Constitution reserved to the states all powers not delegated to the Federal Government, then that got muddied.

So where you have a disagreement you have preemption and the final arbiter over what is right is..



Therefore, it's a tax.