Eighteenth Amendment

noun

1. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1918, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages for consumption: repealed in 1933.

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Few laws or acts of Congress have ever been so unpopular with so many people as the Eighteenth Amendment.

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I suppose young adults who grew up from 1920-1933 had similar difficulty getting future generations to believe the Eighteenth Amendment existed, notwithstanding stories about Eliot Ness and “The Untouchables.”

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Many supporters of the Eighteenth Amendment also supported, a year later, the Nineteenth Amendment, an equally controversial measure, which established women’s right to vote.

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He had heard that Greenwich Village, the untrammeled, laughs openly in the teeth of the Eighteenth Amendment.

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The Clique Club was a post-Prohibition institution of New York, run in direct, more or less open, and famously successful defiance of the Eighteenth Amendment.

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