Happy Prohibition Repeal Day 2012

who knew the future of craft beer began in 1919….On Jan 16th 1919 Congress, at the urging of the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement, passed the 18th Amendment, outlawing alcohol.  Thirteen years later, running on a platform that included the repeal of Prohibition, FDR won the presidency and as promised, on Dec 5th 1933 the final states needed to obtain a majority passed the 21st Amendment and Prohibition was repealed.
Be sure to raise a glass of beer (or whatever you’d like) and toast this return not only to the legalization of alcohol, but also the return of distillation and brewing traditions to the US.

To check out more about the 18th & 21st Amendments….

The 18th Amendment

Ratified 16 January 1919

Section 1. 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 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 3. 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.

The 21st Amendment

Ratified 5 December 1933

Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use there in of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in 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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