What does it mean?
2007-10-23 11:58:00 · 16 answers · asked by *BeAuTiFuL*_*DiSaStEr* 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Prohibition of alcohol, often shortened to the term prohibition, also known as Dry Law, refers to a sumptuary law in a given jurisdiction which prohibits alcohol. Typically, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted or illegal.
2007-10-23 12:03:16 · answer #1 · answered by ~~Lisa~~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Amendment XVIII
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.
It is the amendment that started prohibition; it outlawed alcohol.
2007-10-23 19:01:36 · answer #2 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it was proposed on dec.18,1917 n ratified on january 16,1919 it was replaced by the 20th ammendment on dec 5 1933
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
2007-10-23 19:06:26 · answer #3 · answered by -яαиdσм ɠìяℓ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was the Prohibition of liquor. Liquor could not be manufactured, sold or transported (distributed). The amendment was proposed on December 18, 1917, and ratified (approved) on January 16, 1919. It was repealed (discontinued) on December 5, 1933 and people were happily drinking again.
2007-10-23 19:09:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it was the prohibition of alcohol, the 21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment because people were smuggling alcohol into the US anyways.
2007-10-23 19:03:49 · answer #5 · answered by danjman3000 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is the amendment that made the Kennedys rich and Started Nascar.
2007-10-23 19:07:56 · answer #6 · answered by Gene 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you read it? It's pretty straight forward. It bans the sale of alcohol. It is also the only amendment to be repealed.
2007-10-23 19:01:31 · answer #7 · answered by booman17 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
it made alcohol illegal. it is also the only amendment we have gotten rid of (via the 21st amendment)
2007-10-23 19:01:39 · answer #8 · answered by Ana 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have a computer google 18th amendment.
2007-10-23 19:06:12 · answer #9 · answered by joyce s 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Prohibition which is the ban on the sake of alcohol is correct.
2007-10-23 19:05:18 · answer #10 · answered by DrIG 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋