If that were so, then why are there problems with the FPLA? If the standard is
set then any law that does not permit metric only to stand on its own would be
invalid and legal to ignore.
We need a law with wording that SI is not the preferred standard but the only
legal standard. Then laws allowing states to revert to English units in road
construction would become illegal.
Setting the standard would mean the US law would incorporate a Weights and
Measures Act specifically declaring what units are legal and illegal for use in
trade and commerce.
Jerry
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From: "mech...@illinois.edu" <mech...@illinois.edu>
To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu>
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 1:40:41 PM
Subject: [USMA:43910] US Standard
Jerry,
Congress has set the Standard, recently as Public Law 100-418
declaring the metric system as preferred for US trade and commerce, and
previously by various other Acts.
Read page iii of NIST SP 811.
Gene.
