What are the odds that this will pass?

[likwid]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

Apples to oranges. All of those examples are just as inapplicable as your last one.

Reasonable people understand that Constitutional freedom isn't defined by doing whatever the hell you want without regard to the cost on others - such as driving 100MPH through a school zone.

Where are cars in the constitution again? I can't seem to find that section.

[buckman]

Originally Posted by likwid

Where are cars in the constitution again? I can't seem to find that section.

The 9th Amendment, 3rd and 4th and 5th in the Bill of Rights are relevent to this discussion.

[likwid]

Originally Posted by buckman

The 9th Amendment, 3rd and 4th and 5th in the Bill of Rights are relevent to this discussion.

I suppose you can make a 10" bass legal right?

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by likwid

Where are cars in the constitution again? I can't seem to find that section.

General police powers are reserved to the States and the people in the Consitution. The tenth ammendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Consitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." If States or localites wish to impose speed limits on public roads it is in their power to do so.

It is not necessary for everything, including cars, or horses, or ships, or airplanes to actually be mentioned in the Constitution in order for Federal, State, or local government to regulate those things. What is necessary for regulation is the purview granted by the enumerated powers. The scope of those powers is broad enough to include things unknown to the framers. What that scope does not include is reserved to the States and the people.