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 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
submission hereof to the States by the Congress."
This amendment has to do with the prohibition of
alcohol. It was amended to the
Constitution because it was thought that getting rid of alcohol would put an
end to the problem. It also had a lot to
do with taxes and the sixteenth amendment.
This amendment made it illegal to import or export any alcohol.
This image shows how many people were against the prohibition of alcohol, and how willing people were to campaign and get it back.
This image is just an article showing the date that all states ratified the prohibition of alcohol and how it was called a "momentous day in world's history" which I am guessing is because it was so outrageous.
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