The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919

Jan 24, 2025 · Eighteenth Amendment, amendment (1919) to the Constitution of the United States imposing the federal prohibition of alcohol. It was repealed in 1933, following the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment.

The original text of the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

Eighteenth Amendment Prohibition of Liquor. Amdt18.1Overview of Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition of Liquor; Amdt18.2 Historical Background. Amdt18.2.1Alcoholic Beverages in Colonial America; Amdt18.2.2Temperance Movements of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Amdt18.2.3Post-Civil War Temperance Organizations

The Eighteenth Amendment granted Congress and the state legislatures concurrent power to enforce Prohibition by enacting appropriate legislation. U.S. Const. amend. XVIII, § 2 .

Eighteenth Amendment. 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:

Jan 27, 2025 · The Eighteenth Amendment. The Constitution was ratified in 1789. The amendment process is described in the first part of Article V: The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a ...

Jun 26, 2023 · Amendment granted Congress and the state legislatures “concurrent power” to enforce nationwide Prohibition by enacting “appropriate legislation.” The Eighteenth Amendment was partly a response to the Supreme Court’s pre-Prohibition Era Commerce Clause jurisprudence, which limited the federal and state

Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: Analysis and Interpretation of the Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors

The Supreme Court held that the Eighteenth Amendment gave the federal government broad power to enforce Prohibition, even with respect to activities conducted within a single state, such as the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.