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Wine Wars: How We Have Painted Ourselves Into A Regulatory Corner, Rachel M. Perkins
Wine Wars: How We Have Painted Ourselves Into A Regulatory Corner, Rachel M. Perkins
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
A private citizen can violate the Constitution in two ways. The first is by enslaving another person, an atrocious act that should be proscribed by the highest law in the land. The second is by transporting alcohol across a state line in violation of the laws of that state. The two actions are hardly of the same magnitude.
The history of alcohol regulation has been a litany of failed attempts--on both the state and federal levels. Each new layer of legislation created additional problems. Most are familiar with the infamy of Prohibition, the federal ban on the manufacture or sale …