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Repealing National Prohibition
Honorée Fanonne JeffersDavid E. Kyvig
出版Kent State University Press, 2000
主題History / United States / 20th CenturyPolitical Science / History & TheoryPolitical Science / ConstitutionsPolitical Science / Public Policy / General
ISBN08733867289780873386722
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XsYi06oDpHMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In this new edition of the most comprehensive study of the political reaction against the Eighteenth Amendment, a response that led to its reversal fourteen years later by the Twenty-first Amendment, David E. Kyvig examines the operation of the national liquor ban, discusses central issues of U.S. constitutional development, and illuminates continuing public policy issues of alcohol and drug control. Employing previously unexamined archival evidence, Kyvig calls attention to a little-known but broad-based bipartisan movement led by the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. These organizations ad their allies amassed political power, particularly within the Democratic party. In the midst of the Great Depression they engineered a complicated, yet very democratic process of formal constitutional change, in the end achieving the only amendment reversal in U.S. constitutional history.