RE- State Detects Sanction Laws (r)

[docwilli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

If these states and cities were acting to change the behavior of their
domestic constituencies and NOT the behavior of foreign countries, then
they would be acting constiutionally.  Unfortunatelly and as many of the
legislators and City Councilmen have said, they are enacting selective
purchasing laws to effect the behavior of BURMA or INDONESIA or NIGERIA or
whatever nation is currently out of favor.  Clearly, this is the
responsibility of the U.S. Stated Department, the FEDERAL Government.

Yours,

Alexander S. Williams
GWU STUDENT

On 13 Apr 1998 RANGOONP@xxxxxxx wrote:

> n a message dated 98-04-13 18:59:19 EDT, you write:
> 
> << 
>  ``Only the federal government has responsibility over foreign relations and
>  foreign commerce,'' said Dan O'Flaherty, a trade council vice president. >>
> 
> It is wrong. States and cities imposing sanctions against brutal regimes who
> violate human rights through out the world is nothing to do with federal
> foreign policy. But the states and cities actions are to maintain freedom of
> expression and freedom from wants that the U.S. constitution allows every
> person, city, and state to do so.
> 
> Every one is also allowed to impose sanction or boycott any company's goods
> when he or she feels it violates human rights. So is state or city. 
> 
> A law student
>