The Eighteenth Amendment

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 the 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."

Section 1. One year after the states approve of this amendment, selling, making, or bringing liquor into the United States will be made illegal. 

Section 2. Congress can pass any needed and appropriate laws in order to enforce this article.

Section 3. This amendment must be ratified by 3/4 majority of the states in the next 7 years, or else it will become invalid.

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This is a short article that describes the plot of the movie Lawless, a 2012 movie starring Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy that takes place during the Prohibition era. The prohibition of alcohol took effect in 1919 and ended up being the only amendment repealed from the Constitution later in 1933. In the meantime, people found ways to get away with drinking alcohol, and criminals made a lot of money selling alcohol to those people. In the movie Lawless, the Bondurant brothers work as "bootleggers," making and selling moonshine in Franklin County, Virginia. Eventually they get tangled up with the corrupt cops and things get crazy. In the making of this movie they did a great job making the time period believable and I wish I could show a movie clip!!! I definitely recommend this one.

There were two types of people that spoke their opinion about the alcohol prohibition - those that demanded the right to drink whatever they want, and those that were against the consumption of alcohol in the first place. You can guess which argument had the most supporters and ultimately won.

Probably the biggest consequence of the 18th amendment was the vast organized crime that came of it. The sale of alcohol began to be controlled by the Mafia and other gangs, and Chicago's infamous Al Capone earned an estimated $60 million annually from his bootlegging business.