TIL that Mississippi did not make child-selling illegal until 2009, after a woman tried to sell her granddaughter for $2,000 and a car and it was discovered that there was no law to punish her under.

tst123@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

TIL that Mississippi did not make child-selling illegal until 2009, after a woman tried to sell her granddaughter for $2,000 and a car and it was discovered that there was no law to punish her under.

FireTower@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

In the US the federal government has very little power to regulate individual’s actions that power is typically reserved for the states. The federal government deals with international and interstate matters.

So the federal government can make laws against selling people across state borders but they can not make laws against selling people within state borders. Because that power belongs to the states.