Other Free Encyclopedias :: Law Library - American Law and Legal Information :: Crime and Punishment in America Vol 4 :: Prohibition - Things To Remember While Reading Excerpts From The Eighteenth Amendment—prohibition Of Intoxicating Liquors:, Excerpt From The Eighteenth Amendment—prohibition Of Intoxicating Liquors

Prohibition - Excerpt From The Eighteenth Amendment—prohibition Of Intoxicating Liquors

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 legislature 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.

User Comments Add a comment…