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Prohibition

Prohibition Success or Failure?

When the Eighteenth Amendment took effect in 1920, the era of Prohibition had arrived. The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the sale, manufacture, transportation, import, and export of intoxicating liquors. The Eighteenth Amendment was given its teeth by congress on January 1920. The National Prohibition Act, called the Volstead Act after its sponsor Andrew j. Volstead. (Clark 148) The Volstead Act provided for the enforcement the Amendment and defined the intoxicating liquors as those containing at least .5 percent alcohol. (Clark, 149)
"There is as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail" a sponsor gloated after the Amendment was designed to prevent the use of alcoholic beverages had been added to the U.S. Constitution. Realizing that any change to the Constitution required two-thirds votes by the House of Representatives and the......


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