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Originally posted by goBigtime
If the federal government can step in and issue a national Spam law that superceeds all the various state laws, why can't they do the same and issue a law making it illegal for people to get married before they are 18?
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The US constitution, as it currently stands, specifically prohibits federal regulation of marriage. It specifically reserves the right to legislate matters involving interstate commerce, which has historically been interpreted to include telecommunications and internet issues. Most efforts at federally forbidding recognition of gay marriage center around modifying the constitution to move some marital legislative authority from state governments to the federal government.