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Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 05:40:27 -0700
To: Harold Thomas <harold@halcyon.com>, "Dave Delany" <freedomh@spectra.net>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: U.S. v. Constantine, S.Ct. (Dec. 1935)

Quoting from letter to Oklahoma Tax Commission
from Dan Meador, dated May 17, 1997:

"The second Federal tax line comes by way of national
prohibition, which was enacted after ratification 
of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919.  The Amendment
gave concurrent jurisdiction to State and Federal
enforcement relating to both State and Federal liquor
laws.  However, ratification of the Twenty-first
Amendment in December 1933 repealed national prohibition,
and in the United States vs. Constantine (Dec. 1935) case,
the United States Supreme Court ruled that repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment eliminated Federal authority to
enforce State law relating to liquor -- each State again
became responsible for making and enforcing its own law.

"The Constantine decision was premised on the 1926 Federal
law.  However, in summer 1935, Congress passed the 
Federal Alcohol Administration Act, and replaced the
former administrative agency with the Federal Alcohol
Administration.  Because of Constantine, the Federal
Alcohol Administration really never got off the ground.
Then via Reorganization Plan No. III of 1940, the 
Federal Alcohol Administration was abolilshed and
administration of the Federal Alcohol Administration 
Act was placed under th Bureau of Internal Revenue,
Puerto Rico."

     Page 4, Paragraphs 2 and 3

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