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Bookmark or Share- Eighteenth Amendment | Definition, Summary, & Facts | BritannicaEighteenth Amendment, amendment (1919) to the Constitution of the United States imposing the federal prohibition of alcohol. It was repealed in 1933, following the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment. The Eighteenth Amendment thus became the only amendment to have secured ratification and later been repealed.
- Interpretation: The Eighteenth Amendment | Constitution CenterThe Eighteenth Amendment must be understood in its historical context, namely, “between 1913 and 1919, in the greatest burst of constitutional activity since the Bill of Rights, amendments establishing the income tax, direct election of senators, Prohibition, and woman suffrage were engraved into the nation’s organic law.”.
- Prohibition | Definition, History, Eighteenth Amendment, & Repeal ...Prohibition was legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 under the Eighteenth Amendment. Despite this legislation, millions of Americans drank liquor illegally, giving rise to bootlegging, speakeasies, and a period of gangsterism.
- Prohibition - Definition, Amendment & Era - HISTORYOn January 16, 1919, the requisite number of states ratified the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcohol within the United States;...
- Overview of Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition of Liquor | Constitution ...The Supreme Court held that the Eighteenth Amendment gave the federal government broad power to enforce Prohibition, even with respect to activities conducted within a single state, such as the manufacturing and sale of alcoholic beverages. See Nat’l Prohibition Cases, 253 U.S. 350, 387 ( 1 920).
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