Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, also known as the Prohibition amendment, that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating beverages.
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on January 16, 1919, and went into effect on January 16, 1920. The Supreme Court’s decisions in such cases as Crane v. Campbell
Prohibition, a popular women’s cause in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, became law when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect in 1920.
In Crane, the Court supported national prohibition by ruling that possessing alcohol for personal use was not a constitutional right. In Hawke, the Court upheld the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment by the Ohio General Assembly over the referendum by Ohio voters who rejected the amendment. According to the Court, when Congress requested that a constitutional amendment be ratified by state legislatures, it neither authorized nor permitted a referendum. In the National Prohibition Cases, the Court completed the process of making national prohibition part of the law of the United States. In these cases, the justices upheld the constitutionality of the Eighteenth Amendment and approved the method by which the state legislatures had ratified it.
On December 5, 1933, the Twenty-first Amendment
Carroll v. United States
Clark Distilling Co. v. Western Maryland Railway Co.
Lanza, United States v.
Olmstead v. United States
Taft, William H.
Twenty-first Amendment