Eighteenth Amendment to the United
States Constitution
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Prohibition agents destroying bar-
rels of alcohol.
Amendment
XVIII
(the
Eighteenth
Amendment) of the United States Constitu-
tion, along with the Volstead Act (which
defined "intoxicating liquors" excluding those
Amendment XVIII in the National Archives
used
for
religious purposes and sales
throughout the U.S.), established Prohibition
in the United States. Its ratification was cer-
tified on January 29, 1919. It is the only
amendment to the United States Constitution
that has been repealed (by the Twenty-first
Amendment).
Text
“ Section 1. After one year from the
ratification of this article the manu-
facture, sale, or transportation of in-
toxicating liquors within, the import-
ation thereof into, or the exportation
thereof from the United States and
all territory subject to the jurisdic-
tion thereof for beverage purposes is
hereby prohibited.
”
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Eighteenth Amendment to the United States
Constitution
1
Section 2. The Congress and the
several States shall have concurrent
power to enforce this article by ap-
propriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be in-
operative unless it shall have been
ratified as an amendment to the Con-
stitution 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.
The amendment itself did not ban the actual
consumption of alcohol, but made obtaining
it legally difficult.
Following significant pressure on law-
makers as a result of the temperanc