Today celebrates the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment went into effect in 1920 but was repealed in 1933 by the 21st Amendment, the only amendment to be repealed. The amendment reads:
” 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.”
History shows how well this succeeded. The 21st Amendment was passed in less than 10 months.
Banning something doesn’t make it “go away”, it only seems to spawn a criminal operation to supply it. The War on Drugs has also amply demonstrated that fact.
(Thank you to the State University of New York, University at Albany for the exact text of the amendment and other information. Ironic, isn’t it?)
The truth gun banners don't like 