Timeline for Has there ever been a profound constitutional crisis in the United States?
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| May 4, 2023 at 11:47 | comment | added | Stuart F | There were constitutional issues around the Civil War, such as whether states had the right to secede, and issues around the North's conduct of the war, but you'd be hard pushed to argue that the Confederacy's actions were constitutionally permitted. Although things like the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis were legally simple (Yeltsin was in the wrong at least legally) but still viewed as constitutional crises. | |
| May 3, 2023 at 17:52 | comment | added | hszmv | Prohibition didn't ban alcohol. It moved the regulation of alcohol from a power of the state to the power of the federal government. A separated law, the Volstead Act, had to be implemented to enforce prohibition. | |
| Mar 16, 2021 at 14:21 | history | answered | Ryathal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |