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On December 5, 1933, the 18th amendment was repealed by the 21st amendment, ending alcohol prohibition. What most people don’t know is that state and local nullification created the atmosphere where this repeal was inevitable. After the 18th amendment, nearly every...
Can state refusal to cooperate with federal enforcement of laws, or the implementation of federal programs really hinder the federal government’s goals? James Madison said it would. In fact, he wrote in Federalist #46 that noncooperation “would oppose, in...
On December 5, 1933, the 18th amendment was repealed by the 21st amendment, ending prohibition. What most people don’t know is that state and local nullification created the atmosphere where this repeal was inevitable. Before I started researching for this...