The Constitution of the United States: Amendment 18 (18th Amendment)
Amendment XVIII. (Prohibition)
Passed by Congress December 18, 1917. Ratified January 16, 1919. Repealed by amendment 21.
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.
1920s Anti-Alcohol Commercial
More
- The Constitution of the United States: Amendments 11-27, from The National Archives
- Eighteenth Amendment – CRS Annotated Constitution
- Eighteenth Amendment – Wikipedia
- Eighteenth Amendment – Findlaw
- The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription – The National Archives
- United States Constitution: Texts, Commentaries, Historical Texts and Judicial Decisions – Law Library of Congress
- Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, Govinfo.gov
The 18th Amendment Explained: The Constitution for Dummies Series
- The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation – FDsys
- “Federalism and the Constitution: Limits on Congressional Power,” CRS Report RL30315 (31-page PDF
) - “Ratification of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution,” CRS Report 97-922 (7-page PDF)
- “Medical Marijuana: Review and Analysis of Federal and State Policies,” CRS Report RL33211 (57-page PDF)
- “Legal Issues Relating to the Disposal of Dispensed Controlled Substances,” CRS Report R40548 (21-page PDF)
A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That Drug Prohibition Has Failed
- “Drug Control: International Policy and Approaches,” CRS Report IB88093 (22-page PDF)
- “War on Drugs,” CRS Report IB10113 (21-page PDF)
- “War on Drugs: The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign,” CRS Report RS21490 (8-page PDF)
- Meta-EE and the Constitution Part 14: Eighteenth Amendment
- Prohibition – Heritage Guide to the Constitution
- “Constitutional Choices: Political Parties, Groups, and Prohibition Politics in the United States,” by Aaron J. Ley and Cornell W. Clayton
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