Sunday, December 19, 2010

The Twenty-First Amendment

21st Amendment To The Constitution Repeal of Prohibition *** Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited. Section 3. The article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. ***
Goodbye Prohibition, welcome back alcohol!  That basically sums up this one.  Seeing as how prohibition was a terrible failure in the first place, this one was a good move.

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This is probably exactly what the american public did after prohibition was repealed.  Not going to lie, I probably would have.

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TIME: 21st Amendment

This nostalgic article goes back to the day that the repeal was put on the table of the senate in 1933.  Although I was somewhat impressed by Senator Sheppard's more than 8 hour filibuster attempt, it was all a bunch of hot air based on all the problems that prohibition had caused.  In the end, the amendment was passed and prohibition was repealed.
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