It is [my] intention to … demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal [g]overnment and those reserved to the [s]tates or to the people.
—– Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981
Republican (fascist/socialist) President Reagan—ostensibly an advocate of State sovereignty—signs the National Minimum Drinking Age, requiring the states to raise their minimum age for the purchase of alcoholic beverages to 21 or suffer the loss of their Federal highway subsidies.
[restored 8/22/2025]
Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of Transportation, issues Transportation Standard 208, requiring the automobile industry install airbags in newly manufactured conveyances, UNLESS two-thirds of the states pass mandatory seatbelt statutes by April Fools’ Day 1989.
[restored 8/22/2025]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface
References:
Federal Register 49 (July 17, 1984): 28962, final rule amending FMVSS No. 208 to require automatic occupant protection in passenger cars. [Frontal air bags].
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1984-07-17/pdf/FR-1984-07-17.pdf
Elizabeth Dole Accomplishments | Robert and Elizabeth Dole Archives and Special Collections
dolearchives.ku.edu/research/topic/senator-elizabeth-dole/accomplishments
National Minimum Drinking Age Act – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_Act#Effects
Current U.s. National Debt:
