Prohibition and Her Amendments

18^th Amendment

• Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
• Section 2. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
• Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress.

• Summary- Alcohol shall be for manufacture, sale, transportation, and consumption. Alcohol is prohibited in all states and territories. State governments still have the power whether or not to pass the article.

• Prohibition- the outlaw of the manufacture, sale, transportation, and consumption of liquor.
• The amendment became law January 17^th, 1920.
• The amendment was created because of a large push by groups like the Anti-Saloon League who blamed alcohol for everything wrong with the country and its people.
• Although the  amendment has been abolished there are still places like Lynchburg, TN that are dry towns, this also happens to be where Jack Daniels is produced.

21^st Amendment

• Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
• Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
• Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

• The 21^st amendment repeals the 18^th amendment. It abolishes prohibition and allows alcohol to be manufactured, sold, transported, and consumed. The state governments were still given the vote to pass the amendment.
• The amendment was created because there was a huge outcry from the American people that they wanted booze. It was also created to try to stop the illegal trade of bootlegging.
• Current issues with this amendment is that the production of alcohol without certain licensing is still illegal.