What Prohibition Has Done to America
In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Beginning in 1920, this Amendment prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages in the United States, until it was repealed in 1933. Franklin contends that the Amendment "is not only a crime against the Constitution of the United States, and not only a crime against the whole spirit of our Federal system, but a crime against the first principles of rational government." Writing only two years after Prohibition began, he correctly predicts many of its disastrous consequences, such as runaway bootlegging and organized crime. The book is both a passionate defense of liberty, and a reminder to Americans of the perils of surrendering it. (Summary by Leon Mire)
Genre(s): Law, Political Science, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 01 | 01 - Perverting the Constitution | Joshua B. Christensen |
00:10:22 |
| Play 02 | 02 - Creating a Nation of Lawbreakers | Leon Mire |
00:10:50 |
| Play 03 | 03 - Destroying Our Federal System | Great Plains |
00:12:39 |
| Play 04 | 04 - How the Amendment Was Put Through | Great Plains |
00:13:45 |
| Play 05 | 05 - The Law Makers and the Law | Carolyn Lawson |
00:06:56 |
| Play 06 | 06 - The Law Enforcers and the Law | Sibella Denton |
00:10:26 |
| Play 07 | 07 - Nature of the Prohibitionist Tyranny | Great Plains |
00:18:36 |
| Play 08 | 08 - One Half of One Percent | Great Plains |
00:10:01 |
| Play 09 | 09 - Prohibition and Liberty | jude kaider |
00:24:21 |
| Play 10 | 10 - Prohibition and Socialism | jude kaider |
00:12:48 |
| Play 11 | 11 - Is There Any Way Out? | jude kaider |
00:10:56 |