Note 317 — Chapter IV · Limitations on the Postal Power

12 Debates of Congress, 1721. The analogy is noticeable between Calhoun’s bill and the Webb-Kenyon Act. The purpose of each was substantially the same,—to make state laws more effective. The latter simply excludes from interstate commerce intoxicating liquor intended to be used in violation of the law of destination, providing no penalties, and merely taking from the offender, when the state attempts to punish, his hitherto valid defense that the local authority was interfering with interstate commerce. See my papers, 1 California Law Review, 499 and 28 Harvard Law Review, 225.