Prohibition in the United States Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Powers of the state=== According to Harvard University historian Lisa McGirr, Prohibition led to an expansion in the powers of the federal state, as well as helped shape the penal state.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State|last=McGirr|first=Lisa|publisher=W.W. Norton|year=2015}}</ref> According to academic Colin Agur, Prohibition specifically increased the usage of telephone wiretapping by federal agents for evidence collection.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Agur|first=Colin|date=2013|title=Negotiated Order: The Fourth Amendment, Telephone Surveillance, and Social Interactions, 1878β1968|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1492199073|journal=Information & Culture; Austin|volume=48|issue=4|pages=419β447|id={{ProQuest|1492199073}}|via=ProQuest|access-date=May 10, 2022|archive-date=November 2, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102220207/https://www.proquest.com/docview/1492199073|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page