"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 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."
Prohibition. Obviously the most ridiculous of all 27 amendments. This amendment banned the distribution of alcohol in the United States. Drinking has been a part of our history. It's part of what makes us Americans!
Below is a Budweiser commercial with their famous Clydesdale. These horses have been with us for over a hundred years!
Drinking has been a part of American culture for a very long time and studies show it is becoming an increasingly more popular activity. The below link is to an article that states the number of Americans who drinks is at an all time high. Drink on!
BEER!!!
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