Prohibition, the Constitution, and states' rights /
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, s...
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2019
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Prohibition, now and then
- Alcohol and liberalism : before national prohibition
- Prohibition and federalism : the road to the Sheppard Amendment
- Ratifying and implementing the Sheppard Amendment (1918-21)
- Ratifying and implementing II (1918-21) : the Northeast
- The dry tide recedes (1922-23)
- Constitutional obligations (1923-24)
- Taking alcohol to the people of the states (1925-28)
- The noble experiment (1929-31)
- The dam breaks (1932-33)
- Conclusion: Prohibition and American constitutionalism
- Coda: Pot and popular constitutionalism : Prohibition's lessons for the marijuana legalization debate