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.Amendment XVIII The
Eighteenth Amendment, enacted in 1919, was one of four
"Progressive" Amendments passed and ratified in quick
succession. Although the American involvement with alcohol and
with temperance movements had been present from the beginning of
the country's history, Prohibition rode to ea