To Save America, Repeal the 18th Amendment (Again)

 This week, we come not only to bury the 18th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as Prohibition, but also to praise the 21st, which put a stake through the 18th's nasty dark heart just 14 years after its passage in 1919.

The 18th was the third of the four so-called "Progressive Era" amendments, which began in 1913 with the 16th amendment and continued down its gruesome anti-freedom path that same year with the 17th amendment.

While it's true that the Founders had provided for altering the Constitution via the amendment process, they had not envisioned using that process as a battering ram against the very nature of the document itself.

The "Appropriate legislation" was the Volstead Act, under the strictures of which, "No person shall on or after the date when the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States goes into effect, manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized in this Act, and all the provisions of this Act shall be liberally construed to the end that the use of intoxicating liquor as a beverage may be prevented."

To promote its causes, the WCTU was among the first organizations to keep a professional lobbyist in Washington, D. C. A hidden element behind the passage of both the 18th and the 19th amendments was xenophobia.

So the 21st amendment was passed by popular acclaim in 1933, in the first year of the new Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration.

While the 18th had failed in its primary mission of reducing the political power of unfavored minorities, the Protestant establishment had already succeeded in passing what it thought was an even more powerful weapon to ensure its continued political dominance: the 19th amendment.

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