Federal commandeering of state governments is such a novel phenomenon that this Courts first experience with it did not occur until the 1970s....later opinions of ours have made clear that the Federal Government may not compel the States to implement, by legislation or executive action, federal regulatory programs.... Even assuming, moreover, that the Brady Act leaves no 'policymaking' discretion with the States, we fail to see how that improves rather than worsens the intrusion upon state sovereignty. Preservation of the States as independent and autonomous political entities is arguably less undermined by requiring them to make policy in certain fields than (as Judge Sneed aptly described it over two decades ago) by 'reducing them to puppets of a ventriloquist Congress.'
Quotes about ventriloquist (5 Quotes)
My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.
No, because I am not a ventriloquist.
Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.