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To: robertpaulsen
The 18th was desired not required.

Yep.

"It is generally held that the enactment of a statute or constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture annd sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, operates to repeal and annul all previously existing laws which permitted such manufacture or sale under regulations or restrictions."

A Treatise on the Laws Regulating the Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors,
by Henry Campbell Black - 1892


320 posted on 09/03/2006 7:16:01 AM PDT by Mojave
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To: Mojave
"It is generally held that the enactment of a statute or constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture annd sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, operates to repeal and annul all previously existing laws which permitted such manufacture or sale under regulations or restrictions."

I'll believe that snippet means that a FEDERAL prohibitory statute annuls STATE laws when you provide the context of the snippet.

But I won't hold my breath waiting.

328 posted on 09/03/2006 8:32:45 AM PDT by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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