Prohibition Is Passed
Prohibition was passed on January 16, 1919 and was put into effect on January 17, 1920 at 12:01 a.m.
Timeline of the Passing of Prohibition:
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The 18th AmendmentThe 18th amendment stated simply:
"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." (Potsdam.edu) |
The Volstead Act The Volstead Act was a series of laws made in order to carry out the 18th amendment and seal any loopholes made in it. Named after Andrew Volstead, a famous dry who helped to write it, this compilation of laws left many of the loopholes it sought to destroy. |
"The words ''beer, wine, or other intoxicating malt or vinous liquors'' in the War Prohibition Act shall be hereafter construed to mean any such beverages which contain one-half of 1 per centum or more of alcohol by volume" "No person shall on or after the date when the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States goes into effect, manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor" |
"No one but a physician holding a permit to prescribe liquor shall issue any prescription for liquor." |
"Any room, house, building, boat, vehicle, structure, or place of any kind where intoxicating liquor is sold, manufactured, kept for sale, or bartered in violation of the War Prohibition Act, and all intoxicating liquor and all property kept and used in maintaining such a place, is hereby declared to be a public and common nuisance" "Liquor for nonbeverage purposes and wine for sacramental purposes may be manufactured, purchased, sold, bartered, transported, imported, exported, delivered, furnished and possessed" |