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| Title | : | Keepers of the Spirits: The Judicial Response to Prohibition Enforcement in Florida, 1885-1935 (Contributions in American History) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0313301905 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-26 |
| Language | : | English |
He holds a PhD from the University of Florida and is the coauthor of The Florida Land Boom: Speculation, Money, and the Banks (Quorum, 1995).. John Guthrie, Jr., was associate professor of history at Daytona Beach Community College
Guthrie Jr. "In this short, valuable study, John J. Guthrie's Keepers of the Spirit is warmly recommended to historians of prohibition, of American legal and and constitutional thought, and of Florida political life." - Florida Historical Quarterly. His well-researched monograph, based on a 1993 University of Florida doctoral dissertation and several published articles, demonstrates the revelance of enduring traditions in American common law and constitutional thought, manifested in the opinions issued by members of the Florida supreme court and the federal district courts of southern Florida. moves beyond the national focus of Hamm and Murchison t
a pleasantly inebriating reading experience unlike the dry accounts one often reads of our sometimes sobering historical past, dr. guthrie has rendered the material in an informative and entertaining manner. his choice selection of anecdotes engages the reader in a topic that, in the hands of a lesser scholar, might be considered an account of arcane litigations. to be sure, dr. guthrie's book was a pleasantly inebriating reading experience, and one which i can highly recommend to anyone interested in this period of american history.
Drawn from research in the manuscript records of the federal judiciary and the court reports of the Florida Supreme Court, this book examines how state and federal judges responded to the enforcement of local, state, and national prohibition in Florida. To present the fullest picture possible, this text, while focusing on the efforts of the judges to uphold the spirit and the letter of the various liquor laws, it also considers the views of individuals who violated prohibition.. As they balanced the rights of individuals with the power of the state, Florida judges acted independently of public opinion and based their rulings on precedent and citation of authority. Upholding these measures often resulted in governmental encroachment on civil liberties; consequently, judges fou
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