Glass and gavel : the U.S. Supreme Court and alcohol / Nancy Maveety.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maveety, Nancy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Supreme Court--Officials and employees--Alcohol use.

United States.

United States. Supreme Court.

Liquor laws--United States--History.

Liquor laws.

Judges--Alcohol use--United States.

Judges.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]

Summary:

In Glass and Gavel, noted legal expert Nancy Maveety has written the first book devoted to alcohol in the nation's highest court of law, the United States Supreme Court. Combining an examination of the justices' participation in the social use of alcohol across the Court's history with a survey of the Court's decisions on alcohol regulation, Maveety illustrates the ways in which the Court has helped to construct the changing culture of alcohol. "Intoxicating liquor" is one of the few things so plainly material to explicitly merit mention, not once, but twice, in the amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Maveety shows how much of our constitutional law--Supreme Court rulings on the powers of government and the rights of individuals--has been shaped by our American love/hate relationship with the bottle and the barroom. From the tavern as a judicial meeting space, to the bootlegger as both pariah and patriot, to the individual freedom issue of the sobriety checkpoint--there is the Supreme Court, adjudicating but also partaking in the temper(ance) of the times. In an entertaining and accessible style, Maveety shows that what the justices say and do with respect to alcohol provides important lessons about their times, our times, and our "constitutional cocktail" of limited governmental power and individual rights.

Contents:

Preface and introduction : a cocktail [book] of decisions

Prologue : early times and the early Supreme Court

The Marshall era of punch and the public house

The long Taney era of the mint julep

The Chase era : taxing times

The Waite era of the grand political saloon

The Fuller era : a gilded age of cocktails

The White era and the prohibition amendment

The Taft era of law, order, and bootlegging

The gin cocktail party of the Hughes era

The Stone era : rumbustion

The old-fashioned Vinson era

The Warren era : swanky swilling

The Burger era : twilight of the cocktail lounge

The Rehnquist era of neotemperance

The retro Roberts era : running a tab

Epilogue : a return to normalcy cocktail.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-351) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Maveety, Nancy. Glass and gavel.

ISBN:

9781538111987

1538111985

OCLC:

1036763697