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Prohibition, the Constitution, and States' Rights by Sean Beienburg (2019, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-10022663213X

ISBN-139780226632131

eBay Product ID (ePID)15038264313

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Number of Pages312 Pages

Publication NameProhibition, the Constitution, and States' Rights

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

SubjectConstitutional, United States / 20th Century, History & Theory, Constitutions

TypeTextbook

AuthorSean Beienburg

Subject AreaLaw, Political Science, History

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight15.7 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2019-002015

ReviewsBeienburg considers Prohibition as a battlefield where skirmishes of American political development, including debates over federalism and states' rights, were fought., Anyone who wants to understand the complicated constitutional politics of Prohibition will want to read this detailed, state-by-state account.

IllustratedYes

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction: Prohibition, Now and Then Chapter 2 Alcohol and Liberalism: Before National Prohibition Chapter 3 Prohibition and Federalism: The Road to the Sheppard Amendment Chapter 4 Ratifying and Implementing the Sheppard Amendment (1918-21) Chapter 5 Ratifying and Implementing II (1918-21): The Northeast Chapter 6 The Dry Tide Recedes (1922-23) Chapter 7 Constitutional Obligations (1923-24) Chapter 8 Taking Alcohol to the People of the States (1925-28) Chapter 9 The Noble Experiment (1929-31) Chapter 10 The Dam Breaks (1932-33) Chapter 11 Conclusion: Prohibition and American Constitutionalism Coda Pot and Popular Constitutionalism: Prohibition's Lessons for the Marijuana Legalization Debate List of Abbreviations Notes Index An online appendix is available at https://press.uchicago.edu/sites/beienburg/.

SynopsisColorado'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.

LC Classification NumberKF3919.B45 2019