¨if the drug effort were failing there would be no violence.¨ what is your reaction to this statement by senior u. s official?

Correlation is not causation is my immediate reaction.

To be more in depth, this is a silly oversimplification that ignores increased use of drugs and the general problems that go along with the war on drugs.

both are true, the congress does have the power to create banks, even if this power is not specifically described in the constitution, since there is nothing restricting it and there is power given to the congress to make "all laws which shall be necessary and proper". maryland was not allowed to tax a branch of the national bank operating there, and the supreme court decided that no state could. both of these topics were discussed in a decision of the mcculloch v. maryland case in 1819.

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