Alcohol prohibition becomes effective only when statutes, local officers, prosecutors, courts, juries, political leadership, property rules, and distribution controls align closely enough to convert law into routine enforcement.
Alignment can increase enforcement capacity without establishing fairness, legitimacy, or equal application.
Tennessee whiskey as a regional system — HannushDead Distillers — full-source synthesisLaw and Libecap — Purity regulation, competing interests and institutional constraintsRoberts — Wyoming enforcement, repeal and liquor controlEhrlander — Northern frontier alcohol history and its interpretive limitsTennessee's open saloons, locker clubs, jury resistance, municipal machines, federal-state boundary, and successive statutory escalations show why legislation alone did not produce compliance.
Created from the complete 457-sheet textual and visual review of Hannush. Source-level synthesis is verified; maturity remains Developing until independent corroboration broadens the evidence base. 2026-09-11: Law–Libecap working paper, all 45 pages reviewed, adds comparative evidence on food-law enforcement institutions (PDF32–38), not a direct test of prohibition. Its observational voting models do not prove causal necessity. Maturity remains Developing. 2026-09-11: Roberts (64 PDF pages) adds Wyoming enforcement/repeal evidence; Ehrlander (41 pages) adds Alaska/northern Canada comparison. Both fully read. Institutional alignment is a synthesis, not proven universal necessity; preserve racial discrimination, Indigenous agency, acquittals and primary-source limitations.
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Hannush Source Audit — 28 September 2026
The Hannush enforcement passage crosses missing ebook309 between physical PDF329–330. Its evidence/citation pair is Needs Review; other sources retain their separate support.
The supplied capture lacks endnotes, bibliography and index, and has confirmed interior gaps. All available457 sheets were read; this is not full-source completion. Fresh source review and limitations