Prohibition Amendment
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Prohibition was instituted with a constitutional amendment--the Eighteenth Amendment--in 1919. This was the first constitutional amendment to have a time-limit on ratification, having a seven-year period for that process. It remains the only amendment to be repealed. To a great extent, Prohibition would be a social experiment that was perceived as a failure. The amendment prevented the transport or sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States, and yet traffic in alcohol did not stop and became the basis for the development of an organized criminal empire that would live beyond the repeal of Prohibition itself. The pressure for temperance was not something that came into being in 1919, and there had been a temperance movement active in various states. Norman H. Clark says that the efforts started in an era few can imagine today, with saloons associated with debauchery and degradation: "It was a place where addiction enslaved many a man, insulating him from th
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