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Sunday, January 26

This day at law  
Bernard Hibbitts at 1/26/2003 05:18:41 PM

On January 26, 1838, Tennessee became the first US state to pass a law prohibiting the general sale of alcohol; fines paid by lawbreakers were put towards the support of public schools. Read more about the history of Prohibition.



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Bernard Hibbitts at 1/26/2003 04:45:09 PM

JURIST is now up and running again after being taken offline by the denial of service attacks that crippled Internet traffic Saturday morning. We apologize for any inconvenience to our readers.



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