The Supreme Court ruled, by vote of 7 to 2, that liquor is legal on U. S. ships outside the three-mile limit. Thus, for the first time since the prohibition amendment went into effect, the highest tribunal in the land has given comfort to the wets.
The outstanding features in the Court's decision are as follows:
1) The 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act apply only to actual United States territory.
2) The assumption that " the Constitution follows the flag" is held to be " a figure of speech and a fiction "...
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