This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...and compels each State to allow its importation in julk from foreign countries and other States, and when once within the territorial limits of a State, you can no more prevent its distribution through the dram-shop than you can arrest the progress of the storm by a geographical line. So it is that the Constitution ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...and compels each State to allow its importation in julk from foreign countries and other States, and when once within the territorial limits of a State, you can no more prevent its distribution through the dram-shop than you can arrest the progress of the storm by a geographical line. So it is that the Constitution already does interfere in the most potent and specific manner with the internal police of the States upon this all-important subject. Thus it appears, first, that the evil can only be effectually reached by national legislation, and, second, that such legislation must be of i cc?istUutional character. It further appears that this is the assertion of no new power over the internal police of the States. It is only a modification for the general welfare of a power already possessed bj the national Government, which is now being exercised to the de struction of the efforts of the States to extirpate a prolific source of pauperism, crime, and death. The Constitution of the United States, as it now is and has been from the beginning, is a law for the unrestricted manufacture, sale, importation, exportation, and internal transportation of intoxicating liquors. It is the great legal fortress of intemperance in this country to-day. It is not a blank upon this subject. It is not even a mere license law. But by its recognition of alcohol as property, which may.be made and used and carried and protected for all purposes in the national domain; by its protection of alcohol as an imported article in the ports and in the Territories of the nation, and by its practical nullification of State laws, enabling the citizens of one State to erect a public bar protected by the supreme law of the land along every inch of the boundaries of a sister State which may be str...
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