Amendment 18

Amendment XVIII

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.

This Amendment means 1. ban on alcohol
2. congress and states have concurrent power to enforce
3. inoperative unless ratified as amendment to constitution by several state legislatures

Media 1:

This picture shows how liquor was not allowed in the U.S and how this amendment was established in 1920.

Media 1:

This is a funny video describing the events that happened because the government banned alcohol.