Prohibition was the Blue State-Red State divide of the 1920s, and satirists such as H.

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As early as next week, the court could rule whether a federal labor law pre-empts California's prohibition against employers using state money to deter union organizing campaigns.

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Lewin, the Hawaii Supreme Court decided that the state's prohibition on same-sex marriage was discriminatory.

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There is nothing conservative about prohibition, which enlists the most centralized state power in displacement of domestic and community roles.

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Less than four years later, however, the same state court overturned California's prohibition on same-sex unions.

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For decades the federal and state governments have enforced a reprise of Prohibition.

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Two years later they opened the state's first brewpub after persuading legislators to drop a Prohibition-era ban.

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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is already headquartered in the Hague with a Conference of State Parties, an Executive Council, and a Technical Secretariat whose verification responsibilities extend over 100 pages.

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America in the 18th and 19th centuries was a land of thousands of licensed stills. (And uncounted, shall we say, informal operations.) "New York alone had 1, 200 legal distilleries before Prohibition, " claims Ralph Erenzo, a cofounder (in 2003) of Tuthilltown Spirits, the state's first and so far only whiskey producer since Repeal.

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