18th Amendment

copied from: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html

Passed by Congress December 18, 1917. Ratified January 16, 1919. Repealed by amendment 21.
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 sales, production, and/or importation/exportation of alcohol into the country became illegal with the 18^th Amendment and would only go into effect 1 year after enough states ratified it. Should the amendment failed to be ratified within 7 years it would have become invalid. Congress had the power to create any laws to support the prohibition of alcohol.

 Congress....Hypocritical much? The Man in the Green Hat, George Cassiday, Congress' bootleg supplier

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The Volstead Act helped defined what an alcoholic beverage was, anything above 0.5 percent. This add tried to persuade drinkers with showing what they could buy for the money they would have spent on alcohol.