Note and Comment

Authors

George E. Kennedy, University of Michigan Law School
Paul B. Barringer Jr, University of Michigan Law School
John S. Kelley Jr, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

The Constitutionality of the Webb-Kenyon Act - In the constitutional history of the commerce clause, by virtue of which absolute control of interstate commerce was given to the Federal Government, there is no question which has caused so much difficulty and has resulted in so many unsatisfactory and contradictory. statements of the law as that problem arising through the attempts of many States effectively to enforce prohibition laws. The power over interstate commerce, delegated to the Federal Government, and the police power, reserved to the States, have not seriously conflicted except in this one instance. But the delegation of power to thd Federal Government has been so construed as to render the prohibitioni laws of States practically ineffective by denying to those States the power to prevent the importation of liquor from other States.

Recommended Citation

George E. Kennedy, Paul B. Barringer Jr & John S. Kelley Jr, Note and Comment, 12 Mich. L. Rev. 585 (1914).
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