Imminent Domain and Temprance

By Bret Heinemann

I am including here three articles I've wrote relating to Imminent Domain and the Temprance movement.

I am [personally opposed to the use Imminent domain and regulations which have the same effect. This is because as I understand the law governments in the southwestern states like California have little or no quthority to use it.

This is apparently the result of the 1848 Treaty of Gaudalupe Hildalgo the united Sates signed with Mexico to acquire this territory. In the treaty the United States was required to list all land which it was or might be interested in acquiring through condemnation. This was done to protect the property rights of the citizens being transferred from one government to the other.

Hence, individuals can stop proceedings if the do so when initially threatened and before the procedure begins, but can't stop proceedings once they let the process begin.

The Temprance Movement

The passage e Prohibition, which put an en to the business of Louis Taussig and Company, was the result of the belief that most of the ills in societ: could be cured, if liquor was no longe available. Men who spent their time ir saloons were seen as a threat to both womer and the sanctity of the home. Saloons were regarded as a threat to men's jobs; and the men who frequented saloons were viewed as more likely to abuse or abandon their wives and children. The temperance movement began in the early ]870s in Ohio with a campaign to shut down the saloons there. This campaign was only temporarily successful in elosing saloons there. This campaign was only temporari]y successful in closing saloons. In 1873 a group in Chicago founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union under the leadership of Anne Wittenmeyer. The WCTU was one of the major forces )ehind the temperance crusade. In 1879 :;rances Willard became the leader of the NCTU, and she changed it from a .1idwestern prayer group into a national nilitant organization. Willard also enlarged

the scope of the organization to include a plan to reform all of the social evils in society. The WCTU would grow and have 160,000 members by 1890 and 245,000 by 1911 I7 The attitude, in general, of both the liquor merchants and distillers was in favor of national laws to regulate their industry. They viewed national quotas as necessary to stabilize their industry and protect themselves from more severe local restrictions. They even tried unsuccessfully to get Congress to regulate their industry. IH After January 16, 1920, with the passage of the Volstead Act the sale of liquor became illegal; and prohibition became law. The end of an era had arrived.

The story doesn't end there, since there were many individuals throughout the 1920s that refused to accept Prohibition and saw it as an opportunity to make money from the illegal manufacture and sale of liquor. Hence, by the 1933-34 it became clear that it was time to change the law once again by removing the Prohibition law.

This change didn't return things to the way they were before Prohibition, but rather is the current law we have today.

References

17. Nancy Woloch, Women and

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