article_snippet: Our system was specifically designed to allow states to experiment with social and economic legislation.
article_snippet: Of course, that state prerogative is also tempered by a federal court's power to strike these laws down if these laws are unconstitutional.
article_snippet: Striking down an act of a state legislature is one thing -- challenging settled Supreme Court precedent is entirely another.
article_snippet: State courts and legislatures are not completely to blame; after all, the law of minors and juveniles is always going to be about some difficult but arbitrary line-drawing.  
article_snippet: Unfortunately, legislatures must draw some lines -- lines that will not always be workable in every situation.
article_snippet: The problem is, if The problem creates an undue burden in one situation, then The problem's constitutionally suspect.