Eighteenth Amendment in the United States
Eighteenth Amendment
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 520 EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENTThe Eighteenth Amendment was framed and adopted to give a peacetime constitutional basis to the national prohibition of alcoholic beverages, originally imposed as a war measure. Congress proposed the amendment in December 1917, and ratification was completed thirteen months
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