EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT
The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Consti-
tution reads:
Section 1. After one year from the ratification
of this article the manufacture, sale, or trans-
portation of intoxicating liquors within, the
importation thereof into, or the exportation
thereof from the United States and all terri-
tory 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 amend-
ment to the Constitution by the legislatures
of the several States as provided in the Con-
stitution, within seven years from the date of
the submission hereof to the States by the
Congress.
The Eighteenth Amendment was passed in
1919 and subsequently repealed in 1933.
The VOLSTEAD ACT (41 Stat. 305 [1919]) was
enacted pursuant to the Eighteenth Amendment
to provide for enforcement of its PROHIBITION.
