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To: fortheDeclaration
"In the case of Prohibition, I believe the Constitution was not assaulted since that was a Constitutional amendment, ratified by the States."

The prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors in the United States was repugnant to the supreme law which protects private property and the disposal and sale thereof.

What next? Cream Soda?

134 posted on 10/29/2004 5:22:39 PM PDT by Eastbound ("Neither a Scrooge nor a Patsy Be")
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To: Eastbound

I was not speaking of the merits of prohibition, just that it did follow a constitutional procedure, that showed the majority of states (people) wanted it.


136 posted on 10/29/2004 5:26:52 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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