Article [XVIII].(See Note 16)
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.
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Discussion Questions:
This amendment outlawed the
sale or use of alcoholic beverages in the United States. This law was later
repealed or done away with. Should this amendment stayed in place and should
there be amendments about other intoxicating substances?
