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The author believes that the U.S. Congress has committed a violation against the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. According to the author, the Constitution has not granted Congress the power to define whether a liquor is intoxicating or not. Yet, the author states, Congress has assumed...
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The article focuses on the ban on the sale, production, and transportation of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933 in the U.S. referred to as prohibition of alcohol or prohibition. It mentions that with the adoption of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibition was made into a...
