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He opposed federal prohibition as " an attempt to rob the states of their jurisdiction over police matters " and advocated local control of liquor regulation because " the improved conditions which we may naturally expect to find in the lives of the men and women who practice Temperance are not found to predominate in the state where Prohibition laws have been on the statute books for years as compared to those states where liquor is sold under a license system or where Temperance laws are controlled by the sentiment of the local communities.
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Edwards makes a similar suggestion, observing that ' the context of the two prohibition in and suggest that what is opposed is not same-sex activity outside the cult, as in the modern secular sense, but within the cult identified as Canaanite '".
He opposed the emperor energetically at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530, when the emperor demanded the prohibition of evangelical preaching.
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To date, it is unclear how the prohibition was broken and there exist differing accounts as to who broke the company policy which resulted in the action that brought about the ability of the US Attorney to argue that jurisdiction for the crime rests in Pittsburgh opposed to California, the base of operations for Nice Dreams.
Scott had longed opposed the prohibition of alcohol, but the war made it all but impossible to resist the pressure of temperance advocates.
A suspicious crowd numbering perhaps 2000 assembled outside city hall on June 2, the anniversary of statewide prohibition, among them his enemies from the city's sizable Irish immigrant community, who generally opposed the ban on alcohol.
The former president opposed prohibition during his presidency and much of his time as Chief Justice, but was himself a teetotaler and during his last years wrote letters in support of Prohibition's objectives.
The Liberals, were split on the issue-most of their MLAs were " dry " but some were " wets " who were opposed to prohibition.
The Progressives under Raney, however, were adamantly in favour of prohibition and opposed to Ferguson's proposals.
Leading FpO members also opposed legal restrictions on pornography that depicts consensual sex between consenting adults, and opposed the prohibition of marijuana, arguing that the state did not have the right to legislate in such matters.
He denied that there could be treason against a separate state since sovereignty was " in the Union ;" and he opposed prohibition of any ex post facto law, one which made an act a criminal offense retroactively, because such prohibition implied " an improper suspicion of the National Legislature.
He advocated birth control and civil service reform and opposed prohibition.
Henderson was personally opposed to prohibition, and vetoed a law against alcohol advertising.
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The prohibition on sex discrimination was added by Howard W. Smith, a powerful Virginian Democrat who chaired the House Rules Committee ; he was a conservative who strongly opposed civil rights laws for blacks.
The classical rabbis argued that, in a number of cases, only if it is impossible to remove every drop of blood, the prohibition against consuming blood was impractical, and there should be rare exceptions: they claimed that consuming the blood which remained on the inside of meat ( as opposed to the blood on the surface of it, dripping from it, or housed within the veins ) should be permitted and that the blood of fish and locusts could also be consumed.
However, bread sold by a non-Jewish baker was not included in the prohibition ; similarly, a number of Jewish writers believed food prepared on behalf of Jews, by non-Jewish servants, would not count as prepared by potential idolaters, although this view was opposed by Jacob ben Asher.
He opposed the Ku Klux Klan and repeal of prohibition.
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He supported prohibition and opposed civil rights for blacks, even voting against anti-lynching measures.
He particularly opposed the prohibition on any party making reservations to the Rome Statute and the manner in which the Statute structured the court's jurisdiction.
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