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Alcohol cases generated constitutional disputes because enforcement required searches of homes, vehicles, businesses, and shipments.
Hamm presents Prohibition enforcement as a major setting in which federal courts developed search-and-seizure rules, exclusionary remedies, automobile-search doctrine, and the practical boundary between state and federal criminal authority.
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