South Dakota v. Dole a U.S Supreme court case challenging the limitations that the constitution puts on the authority of the U.S congress when it uses its power to influence or persuade a individual state. This court case is a conflict between the individual state and the federal power over the state minimum drinking age. The main question of interest in South Dakota v. Dole is when congress wants to promote certain actions or put laws into the works should they be able to use their power to influence the state to adopt the law for example in this case states that did not raise the legal drinking age to 21 would 5 percent less money for their highways. The reason congress wanted the drinking age up was because of a incident involving 4 19