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Originally Posted by wnkryo
If history has taught us one thing about laws and how they reflect the people, it is that if a majority of the people feel like some law(s) shouldn't be followed then almost always the outcome is people > laws. Their are many prime examples to prove my statement correct but the best one would be prohibition because it was one of the first times the government realized they cannot control the people if they feel so strongly agianst a law.
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Prohibition was actually a huge success.
While prohibition was in place public drunkeness and disorder dropped by nearly 80% of the levels from the years prior to it. Prohibition was put in place to combat these problems and the government ended not because people were opposed it but because the levels of disorder remained low enough over the course of its duration that it was nolonger deemed necessary. To prove how effective it was, levels of public disorderly conduct and public drunkeness have never reached the same levels as they did before prohibition.