What Prohibition Teaches About Guns and Abortion: How Alcohol Can Save Individual Rights
12 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2017 Last revised: 14 Oct 2019
Date Written: 2017
Abstract
This paper argues that advocates should use the documented history of Prohibition to argue why courts should be circumspect before overruling decisions recognizing individual rights. In three parts, the paper outlines how the 2016 presidential election stirred frisson among proponents and opponents of abortion and gun rights, discusses how Prohibition is apt when considering the effects of curtailing individual rights, and concludes by asserting that due process requires courts to adhere to precedent when individuals develop a reliance interest on recognized individual rights.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Snyder, Jesse, What Prohibition Teaches About Guns and Abortion: How Alcohol Can Save Individual Rights (2017). Hastings Women's Law Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2017, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3006715
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