Repeal Day: December 5, Seventy Five Years Ago

Date December 4, 2008

Title: Repeal Day
Location: The United States of America
Link out: Click here
Description: The 21st Amendment was passed on this day 75 years ago. This amendment repealed the 18th Amendment and brought an end to Prohibition.

The Amendment states…

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 The eighteenth article of amendment to the United States Constitution is hereby repealed.

Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use there in 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.

It was Michigan on April 10, 1933 that was first to satisfy Section 3 of this amendment. Click here for the story that I posted on that day.

Please have a toast to the people who fought to get this amendment ratified.

For some good reading on repeal day go to…

http://www.repealday.org/  or

 http://beerinfood.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/national-prohibition-its-real-anniversary/

Category Posted in Beer History, Uncategorized

4 Responses to “Repeal Day: December 5, Seventy Five Years Ago”

  1. TeacherPatti said:

    December 4th, 2008 at 5:51 pm

    When I taught government, I had them sing a song about the 27 Amendments (to the 12 Days of Xmas theme no less). The line for this amendment was “We can drink now! Wow!” They always loved it. (I think the 18th A line was “alcohol will kill you”).

  2. George Hotelling said:

    December 5th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    I think my favorite prohibition story is this one from http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/funfacts/prohibition.html

    In Los Angeles, a jury that had heard a bootlegging case was itself put on trial after it drank the evidence. The jurors argued in their defense that they had simply been sampling the evidence to determine whether or not it contained alcohol, which they determined it did. However, because they consumed the evidence, the defendant charged with bootlegging had to be acquitted.

  3. Russ said:

    December 5th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    I think we should all go home and watch Homer vs. the 18th Amendment. One of the greatest Simpsons episodes EVER.

  4. Kevin Nash said:

    December 5th, 2008 at 5:54 pm

    George, thank you for passing that site on to us. It is some great reading.

    Russ, you may have just started a 12/5 tradition in our house. Remember as Homer said…

    “Prohibition? HA! They tried that in the movies and it didn’t work”.

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