you get somebody like pierre dupont, who switches sides. you get these figures in business. in my classes i teach them as people who, the women wear pearls and the men wear hats. very collected, professional and highly connected people, both men and women. as they start to advance the idea of the repeal, they keep emphasizing both the way in which it seems to be teaching a disrespect for the law and the fact that it is questionable about its democratic character. they tried making that letter complaint first through court. it did not get the traction they wanted. it did it feel popular, this idea that somehow the enactment of this amendment had not been reflective of the popular will. that was something that was at least an arguable point. based on how people responded to a. that translated into a campaign for appeal that had to be consistent. and if the critique was that the prohibition amendment had not been democratic, they needed to find a method of repeal that looked as democratic as possible. going to state conventions seemed to do that. but then there is the tricky po