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Pros And Cons Of The 18th Amendment

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The eighteenth amendment of the United States Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the U.S and is most commonly referred to as Prohibition. Many believe that it prohibited the purchase or consumption of alcohol but it in fact did not (Prof. David J. Hanson, 2017). For anyone who is not well versed on the U.S. Constitution, they many not believe that this is an actual amendment. Today it is legal to manufacture, sell, transport, export, import, and pretty much do anything else with alcohol. That is because the 18th amendment is the only amendment in the 230 years since the Constitution was written to be repealed. Some historians account that the 18th amendment cut back on crime and others

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