“The Supreme Court ruled, by [a] vote of 7 to 2, that liquor is legal on U.S. ships outside the three-mile limit… Neither foreign or American ships may carry liquor within the three-mile limit. The 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act apply only to actual United States territory. “




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