"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This amendment is interesting because it is the only one that has been repealed from the US Constitution. It talks about banning the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol. This amendment was established in 1919 and it was a big failure because it made people find other ways to drink and sell it undercover.
This video is from the Simpsons. It is one of my favorite scenes, where Homer makes his own alcohol when Prohibition gets approved in Springfield.
Here we can see the Orange Country (California) Sheriff dumping alcohol after the establishment of the 18th amendment.
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