Prohibition, the Constitution, and States' Rights
Title | Prohibition, the Constitution, and States' Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Sean Beienburg |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2019-06-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022663213X |
Colorado’s legalization of marijuana spurred intense debate about the extent to which the Constitution preempts state-enacted laws and statutes. Colorado’s legal cannabis program generated a strange scenario in which many politicians, including many who freely invoke the Tenth Amendment, seemed to be attacking the progressive state for asserting states’ rights. Unusual as this may seem, this has happened before—in the early part of the twentieth century, as America concluded a decades-long struggle over the suppression of alcohol during Prohibition. Sean Beienburg recovers a largely forgotten constitutional debate, revealing how Prohibition became a battlefield on which skirmishes of American political development, including the debate over federalism and states’ rights, were fought. Beienburg focuses on the massive extension of federal authority involved in Prohibition and the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, describing the roles and reactions of not just Congress, the presidents, and the Supreme Court but political actors throughout the states, who jockeyed with one another to claim fidelity to the Tenth Amendment while reviling nationalism and nullification alike. The most comprehensive treatment of the constitutional debate over Prohibition to date, the book concludes with a discussion of the parallels and differences between Prohibition in the 1920s and debates about the legalization of marijuana today.
States' Rights and National Prohibition
Title | States' Rights and National Prohibition PDF eBook |
Author | Archibald Ewing Stevenson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Prohibition |
ISBN |
The Prohibition Amendment
Title | The Prohibition Amendment PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2066 |
Release | 1930 |
Genre | Prohibition |
ISBN |
The Prohibition Amendment
Title | The Prohibition Amendment PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1930 |
Genre | Liquor laws |
ISBN |
Prohibition: Going Or Coming?
Title | Prohibition: Going Or Coming? PDF eBook |
Author | Elton Raymond Shaw |
Publisher | |
Pages | 508 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Prohibition |
ISBN |
Prohibition - Constitutional Amendment
Title | Prohibition - Constitutional Amendment PDF eBook |
Author | David Ignatius Walsh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 1932 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Amendments XVIII and XXI: Prohibition and Repeal
Title | Amendments XVIII and XXI: Prohibition and Repeal PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvia Engdahl |
Publisher | Greenhaven Publishing LLC |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2009-03-30 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0737745894 |
This volume presents the legal concepts of the Eighteenth and Twenty-first Amendments in an engagingly simplified, easily understandable way, while reflecting provisions in both the national and state curriculum standards. Readers will look at these two amendments in historical context, examining how they have been tested in the courts and present current controversies and debates. Lastly, readers will examine each amendment's current relevance.