"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."
This Amendment was adopted in 1920 and prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States. This Amendment later got repeal in 1933 by the Twenty-First Amendment of the Constitution.
Prohibition: To Drink or Not to Drink
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This is a very interesting video, where it explains when the Eighteenth Amendment passed and how eventually it got overturned. This relates very much to today's case with some illegal drugs the ones that some people want to become legal. In my personal opinion I think that having alcohol is not bad but other drugs I don't think it is necessary since many people misuse them and they can cause some bigger problems.
1920's Anti-Alcohol Commercial
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This is a commercial from the 1920's when alcohol was prohibited. The church and Christian groups were the main supporters of this cause. IN this video the preacher uses the little girl as the reason for not to drink. Putting alcohol as something very bad for our kids and the society.
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