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Commission has effectively drafted a Code of the Criminal Law for England and Wales, such a code has not been actually enacted by Parliament, so it cannot be said that there is a Code of Criminal Law in force in England. I think that the article's reference to an English Criminal Code is misleading, as it suggests otherwise.

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Another example is that the national minimum drinking age, not logically found in Title 27, Intoxicating liquors, but in Title 23, Highways, §158.

There is NO US minimum drinking age. Each state is free to set its own. What the US Government has done, instead, is to grant federal assistance for highway construction only to states which adopt the federally-determiend minimum age of 21. States are free to decline, but then they do not get the highway money. This approach to penalizing states for non-compliance with federal standards on subjects otherwise within the jurisdiction of US states (a form of "funded mandate", in contradistinction to the "unfunded mandates" critisized by the Gingrich Republians in their "Contract with America," i. e., their campaign platform for the 1994 congressional elections)has also been critisized; and certain approaches to the use of withdrawal of federal funds have been found unconstitutional (notably in the recent US Supreme Court case on "Obamacare.")

Alvin P. Bluthman