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Eighteenth Amendment

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Noun1.Eighteenth Amendment - an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages; repealed in 1932
Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution, United States Constitution, US Constitution, Constitution - the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
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Lerner traces these developments in considerable detail, all of it supporting his observation that, far from uniting New Yorkers in a common reform cause, the Eighteenth Amendment instead "had polarized New York between irreconcilable dry and wet camps, one bent on enforcing Prohibition at any cost and the other set on rebelling against it" (page 59).
Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City by Lender, Mark Edward / Journal of Social History
See JOHN HART ELY, DEMOCRACY AND DISTRUST 99 (1980) (citing the Eighteenth Amendment and its quick repeal as an example of what can happen when the nation foolishly attempts to "freeze" shifting values in a constitutional text); Laurence H.
The myth of the written constitution by Pettys, Todd E. / Notre Dame Law Review
The Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages, resulted in the growth of organized crime, the sale of illegal alcohol, and ultimately repeal by the Twenty-first Amendment.
Sex, religion & prop 8 by Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien / Commonweal
 
 
 
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