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Law Observance: Shall the People of the United States Uphold the Constitution?
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Book title: Law Observance:Shall the People of the United States Uphold the Constitution?.
Contributors: W. Durant C. - Editor.
Publisher: Durant Award Office.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1929.
Page number: 545.
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Table of contents
- Title Page 5
- Contents 7
- Introduction 13
- Prize Award Committee Asks For Mosaic of Plans 53
- Laws Men Break and Why 57
- Winning High School Plan 63
- Less Local Political Influence 69
- Presidential Leadership In Enforcing and Educating 73
- Success in Under-Cover Work 81
- Mold Public Opinion 85
- Modernize the Federal Judicial System 91
- A National League to Educate 97
- Let States Fix Alcoholic Content 103
- Spend Whatever is Needed 106
- "Destroy the Unholy Alliance" And Tighten Volstead Act 113
- Stop Volstead Loopholes 119
- Use State Courts and Padlock 125
- Government and Public Co-Operation 131
- No More Joking 138
- Multiply Enforcement Successes 144
- Mr. and Mrs. Prominent Citizen 152
- Increase Penalties, Pay Informers 157
- Let the Buyer Beware! 158
- Imitate the Coast Guard 159
- Bonuses for Convictions 161
- An Enforcement Commission Appointed by the Judiciary 166
- Offer Large Rewards 172
- Continuous Study of Crime Causes 175
- A Police Chief's Plan 181
- Salesmanship Research 186
- Require Jail Sentences 195
- Stop Supplies for Home Brew; Forfeit "Pre-Volstead Cellars" 196
- Use the Navy More 201
- The President, Chief Enforcer 203
- Deprive Offenders of Citizenship 207
- Hasten and Multiply Trials By Using U. S. Commissioners 209
- Stop Violating Law to Get Evidence 214
- Find Facts, Educate, Persuade And Divorce Politics from Bootlegging 220
- National and Local Civic Research 226
- A Scientific Study 232
- Punish Oath-Breaking Officials 240
- Give Enforcement to Department Of Justice 245
- "Pay as It Goes" Enforcement 246
- Every Citizen an Enforcer 252
- Make Alcoholic Medicines Easy to Get 253
- Make All Violations Felonies 260
- Create a Money Motive For Co-Operation in Enforcement 264
- Divide the Field 270
- Consider Existing Conditions 277
- New York Can Be Dried 283
- An Educational Organization 290
- Co-Ordinate and Mobilize 296
- Harness the Nation's Schools 302
- Re-Enforce Enforcement 307
- Put "Violation is a Felony" On Postage Stamps and Posters 314
- Stop Taxing Intoxicants 321
- Elect Sympathetic Officials 326
- No Cheese-Paring Economy 327
- Return to Wholesale Education 332
- Stricter Account Needed Of Court Practices 338
- Back Competent Agents 345
- Reach the Buyer 352
- Stop Over-Leniency by Courts 358
- Re-Examine All the Facts 361
- Use Only Federal Courts 362
- More Judges, More Agents 365
- Examine Cargo Containers 370
- The Winning Plan 372
- Courses in Law Observance 380
- Quicker Prosecution With Better Machinery 385
- Make It a Felony 389
- Imprison Lax Enforcers 390
- Woman's Share In Educating the Public 392
- The President Can Enforce 398
- Treat Buyers as "Fences" 405
- Awaken the Patriotic Conscience By Disseminating Information 407
- Only Law Observers For Prohibition Enforcers 413
- Make Buyers "Tell" on Sellers 419
- Road and Workhouse Sentences 423
- More Training, Better Pay For Prohibition Prosecutors 426
- Secure a Popular Attitude Of Impartiality Toward This Law 430
- Pledge All Executives 435
- Local Option Enforcement 442
- An Under-Cover Man's Idea 447
- Let Jury Majorities Decide 448
- Light Fines Are Jokes 454
- Put Teeth in the Law 457
- Constantly Test Operating Efficiency 458
- Hire Informers and Possemen 463
- Why Enforcers Hop-Scotch 465
- Use Local Informers 470
- Dismiss Hostile Jurors 471
- As a Prerequisite to Voting Require Oath of Having Obeyed 477
- Form "The Constitutionals" 482
- Education, Not Force 489
- Bond the Enforcement Agents 496
- Use Vast State Police Forces 499
- Juries, Weakest Link 504
- Convert the Colleges 507
- Better Co-Operation By and With All Local Enforcers 512
- Make Bootlegging Unprofitable 519
- Start All Over with Enforcers 521
- Reach Property Owners 523
- If I Were Empowered 530
- New Power in Old Law By Presidential Insistence 537
- If Armed, Double Penalties 544
- Appendix 545
- Index 567
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