Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920University of North Carolina Press, 1995 - 341 páginas Richard Hamm examines prohibitionists' struggle for reform from the late nineteenth century to their great victory in securing passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. Because the prohibition movement was a quintessential reform effort, Hamm uses it as a case study to advance a general theory about the interaction between reformers and the state during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Most scholarship on prohibition focuses on its social context, but Hamm explores how the regulation of commerce and the federal tax structure molded the drys' crusade. Federalism gave the drys a restricted setting--individual states--as a proving ground for their proposals. But federal policies precipitated a series of crises in the states that the drys strove to overcome. According to Hamm, interaction with the federal government system helped to reshape prohibitionists' legal culture--that is, their ideas about what law was and how it could be used. Originally published in 1995. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value. |
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... ruling to the Dred Scot decision ; just as that ruling had contributed to the growth of the Republican party , this ruling would " bring about a union of all the friends of temperance law and order " in a national party dedicated to the ...
... ruling to the Dred Scot decision ; just as that ruling had contributed to the growth of the Republican party , this ruling would " bring about a union of all the friends of temperance law and order " in a national party dedicated to the ...
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... ruling would create " a political storm , the extent and outcome of which cannot be determined . " The consensus among politi- cians was that the ruling worked “ a great revolution in the temperance question , " making it a national ...
... ruling would create " a political storm , the extent and outcome of which cannot be determined . " The consensus among politi- cians was that the ruling worked “ a great revolution in the temperance question , " making it a national ...
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... ruling . Enough members of the House agreed with this reasoning to insure passage of the Senate version . On August 8 , 1890 , less than four months after the Leisy ruling , President Benjamin Harrison signed the Wilson Act into law ...
... ruling . Enough members of the House agreed with this reasoning to insure passage of the Senate version . On August 8 , 1890 , less than four months after the Leisy ruling , President Benjamin Harrison signed the Wilson Act into law ...
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The Radical Prohibition Movement and the Liquor | 19 |
Court and Congress | 56 |
The Federal Liquor Tax and the Radical Prohibitionists | 92 |
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