For years, people had toyed with the idea of a "dry county"; yet, until World War I, no one had ever seriously considered it. ... People all over the nation were excepting prohibition with all too great an ease. ... Society was beginning to except breaking the law on an everyday basis with the rationalization that it was only alcohol. ... Federal courts were suddenly jammed packed with prohibition cases, and most courts found themselves at the breaking point (Thornton 72). ... America's own law makers and legislators, who had been the cause of the prohibition law, were now becoming corrup...

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