Could trump make a Federal change in minimum age, for work and for marriage?

[Shellback Squid]

I just wonder if that's part of their grand scheme

[dem4decades]

1. Or change the age of consent after the fact?

[Ocelot II]

2. Those matters are governed by state law.

[Shellback Squid]

3. and a Federal law could not supersede them?

[Boo1]

4. No

In states with a higher state minimum wage than federal, the state law wins.they both have to be followed, meaning the state sets the effective minimum wage in those.

[Ocelot II]

5. The Tenth Amendment says no.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Marriage is primarily a state-level legal issue, not a federal one. State laws establish licensing requirements, age, etc., and regulate divorce, but they cannot violate the Constitution, which is why the Supreme Court struck down state bans on interracial marriage and guaranteed the right to same-sex marriage nationally.

[Shellback Squid]

6. I thought I'd ask our scholars before using Ai, I don't fully trust it yet

but it confirmed you both are correct...