Amendment XVIII (18)

Amendment XVIII

Ratified January 16, 1919

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.


     The eighteenth amendment established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by stating that the production, transportation and sale of alcohol is illegal. The sixteenth and the eighteenth amendment came about in the same time fame. The sixteenth amendment was pushed by the affect of the eighteenth amendment. The Volstead Act, which defined the types of intoxicating liquors that were prohibited, became a method used to enforce the eighteenth amendment. This amendment created a rise in organized crime, and corruption extended among the law enforcement officials. In 1933, the amendment was repealed by the ratification of the twenty-first amendment.  



     This picture shows a group of protesters that go against the passing of the eighteenth amendment in 1933. This demonstrates one of the causes for why the eighteenth amendment was later repealed by the twenty-first amendment. Too many people were against the idea of not being able to have alcohol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do10eXCwwL4

     This video is the act of a few girls demonstrating what the eighteenth amendment is all about. A couple of girls are drinking and then someone comes in and tells them that what they are doing is against the eighteenth amendment. At the end, they say they don't drink in their song, but just a tad bit later they say not yet, which then leads into the twenty-first amendment.