Amendment Twenty One and It's Meaning

Amendment Twenty One

"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The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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 therein 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."

Amendment 21 is another prohibition amendment. When the 18th was looked down on and citizens started to do unlawful crimes, they made the 21st amendment to put more laws on alcohol. With this amendment the 18th was repealed and it allowed for states to make their own laws regarding alcohol. Dry laws were used when the 21st amendment overturned prohibition, they allowed states to set their own laws for liquor licensing and alcohol consumption.

I found this picture at: http://www.lostinthebeeraisle.com/2012/01/21st-amendment-allies-win-the-war.html

I chose it because I like that instantly as it was passed, people were ready to brew beer for the world. The 21st amendment is one that I agree with, even thought they have made some weird laws in certain states regarding liquor. For instance, I am 20 and cannot open or pour alcoholic beverages at work, but I can serve them with a liquor license (doesn't make much sense). Anyways, this picture just gives a real example of the "surprising turn of events" regarding alcohol prohibition.

I enjoyed this video thoroughly and I hope you do too. It goes from the beginning when people protested against the 18th "we want booze" to when it was repealed in turn by the 21st amendment being created; it then goes to show a bunch of GI Joes (or whatever they are) getting drunk and exercising their new freedoms!