21st Amendment

08 April 2006

Welcome to 21st Amendment

Welcome to 21st Amendment. This is my first blogging experience, so hopefully it will be a place to share ideas, yours and mine, about whatever the hell is going on out there. For those of you who don't know, the 21st Amendment is the amendment to the Constitution of the United States that repealed the prohibition on liquor. In its entirety it reads,

Amendment XXI

Section 1: The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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

Today, the amendment serves little practical purpose except maybe to prohibit the importation of our favorite out of state wines and to serve as a reminder of what happens when we amend the greatest article of law the world has ever known for the sake of "morality." At least we can amend it, right? Does anyone else have a hard time believing that the word "liquor" is actually in the Constitution (not once but twice!)? Best-

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