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Eighteenth Amendment

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Eighteenth Amendment

See Amendment, Eighteenth.



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Lerner traces these developments in considerable detail, all of it supporting his observation that, far from uniting New Yorkers in a common reform cause, the Eighteenth Amendment instead "had polarized New York between irreconcilable dry and wet camps, one bent on enforcing Prohibition at any cost and the other set on rebelling against it" (page 59).
See JOHN HART ELY, DEMOCRACY AND DISTRUST 99 (1980) (citing the Eighteenth Amendment and its quick repeal as an example of what can happen when the nation foolishly attempts to "freeze" shifting values in a constitutional text); Laurence H.
The Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages, resulted in the growth of organized crime, the sale of illegal alcohol, and ultimately repeal by the Twenty-first Amendment.
 
 
 
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