Thursday, May 1, 2014

Amendment 18

Amendment XVIII

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 has to do with the prohibition of all alcoholic beverages.





This is a picture displaying America trying to keep America sober by making the 18th amendment and making several laws against alcohol.














This is a photo of people would owned alcohol having to dump it after the 18th  Amendment made it illegal.

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