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Document: Legal basis of the Eighteenth Amendment

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U. S. Supreme Court National Prohibition Cases (1920)

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In the National Prohibition Cases (1920), U.S. Supreme Court upheld the validity of the Eighteenth Amendment by rejecting the argument that a prohibition on the distribution of alcohol was an improper subject for the Federal Constitution to control

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