The Federal Government Has Asserted Its Right to Regulate the Minimum

The federal government has asserted its right to regulate the minimum age for drinking alcoholic beverages by

A) threatening to take federal highway construction funds away from states that do not comply.
B) arguing it has the right to establish a minimum drinking age under the reserved powers clause.
C) stating that doing so is a power reserved to the national government under the Tenth Amendment.
D) citing the past history of government regulating alcohol during Prohibition in the 1920s.
E) arguing that the United States needs to align itself with the policies of other advanced industrialized nations.