Word: druggan
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Other Cases Decided. Terence Druggan, convicted beer-legger of Chicago, appealed for a writ of habeas corpus to escape jail on the grounds that the Volstead Act was illegal because it had passed before the 18th Amendment was ratified. Justice Holmes read the Court's opinion sustaining the Act, declaring: "No reason has been suggested why the Constitution may not have given Congress a present power to enact laws intended to carry out constitutional provisions for the future when the time comes for them to take effect...