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Did the federal drinking age law save lives? In this case, coercive federalism did not improve public welfare.(LAW ENFORCEMENT)
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed the Federal Uniform Drinking Age Act, a law that threatened to withhold federal highway funds from states that failed to increase their minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) to 21. Many states objected to this federal intrusion and provided for rollback of their MLDA21 if the federal law was repealed or held unconstitutional, or if the federal sanctions expired. South Dakota went so far as to sue Reagan's secretary of transportation, Elizabeth Dole, to prevent implementation of the act. In South Dakota v. Dole (1987), however, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the act constitutional. The Court decided that the "relatively small financial ...
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