Constitution eighteenth amendment

Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States (ratified on January 29, 1919) ushers in prohibition laws prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcohol in United States. 

Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution repeals Eighteenth Amendment and makes it legal to sell and consume alcohol in United States. 

Alcohol prohibition was enacted several years later when in 1920, Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The legislation was a victory for the forces that viewed alcohol as evil and destructive, notably the Anti-Saloon League and the Women s Christian Temperance Union. And the amendment was not vague about its intent It prohibited the production, sale, transportation, and importing of alcohol in any part of the United States. The only exception was that alcoholic beverages kept in the home, such as naturally fermented hard cider, could be consumed but not offered for sale (Lender Martin, 1982). 

Temperance movements began to spring up in America largely supported by religious groups. By the eighteenth century the American Temperance Society promoted the concept of total abstinence from alcohol. In 1919 laws prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcohol nationwide were enacted, but these laws were repealed in 1933 by the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution. 

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