(LAW) Brandeis Louis D The Anti Bar Law the Twenty Five Feet

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(LAW.) Brandeis, Louis D. The Anti-Bar Law, the Twenty-Five-Feet Law. Argument . . . before the Joint Committee on Liquor Law, of the Massachusetts Legislature. 26 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers, minor wear; faint vertical crease. In a modern cloth folding case. Boston, 1891

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The first separate publication by one of the Supreme Court's great justices, preceded only by a few law review articles. Brandeis here defends Boston's saloon operators against legislation that would have banned the sale of liquor except with meals, and would have allowed neighboring property owners to veto liquor licenses. He argues that the proposed laws were an invitation to corruption, and asks the board: "Make your laws reasonable, so that men may obey them; let the liquor dealer be respectable, and you will have gone far towards settling the liquor problem." Mersky, Brandeis Bibliography page 14. 7 copies in WorldCat, and none known at auction.