CEI Cites Constitutional Violation
Washington, D.C., August 2, 2005—The Competitive Enterprise Institute on Tuesday filed a constitutional challenge to the 1998 tobacco settlement. The suit alleges that the agreement between 46 states and major tobacco companies is unconstitutional because it violates the Compact Clause of the Constitution:
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress … enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State. (Article I, Section 10)
The Compact Clause was meant to prevent states from collectively encroaching on federal power…
