AMENDMENT XVIII OF CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES_AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

AMENDMENT XVIII

SECTION I  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 territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof, for beverage purposes, is hereby prohibited.

SECTION II  The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

SECTION III  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.

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