Eighteenth Amendment

Ratified January 16, 1919


The eighteenth amendment states...
      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.


What it means to me...
      This amendment instituted the Prohibition. It also gave both Congress and the States the authority to enforce the amendment through legislation.

The following is a cartoon about this amendment...

This is a classic Simpsons cartoon for Homer vs. the 18th amendment.

The following is a newspaper article...

This newspaper article is about when the United States was voted as dry, meaning there would be stricter laws put on the selling, transportation, and consuming of alcoholic beverages in many  if not all states.