The legalization of booze

Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.


Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. Effect of Repeal



This amendment repeals prohibition. It is now legal to sell, import, export, produce, and drink liquor. Was it because men were too stressed about women being able to vote? Was it to cut back on crime and underground "rum runners"? Whatever the case is, the repealing of this 18th amendment lifted the restrictions of alcohol and destroyed the power that the "mob" bosses had over the underground booze business.

States and Repeal

This article written September 25, 1933 gives a brief listing of the states that voted for repeal of the 18th amendment. The converstation footnoted at the end of the article between President Hoover and Arthur Race gives a little bit more insight to the opinion of the bootlegging and speakeasy industries.