Just one year before the 1920's uproar, the Eighteenth Amendment, also known as the Volstead Act or Prohibition, was added to the Constitution. ... The Eighteenth Amendment was adopted into the Constitution based upon my different circumstances. ... Other jurisdictions ratifying comparable clauses include: Iceland, Finland, Norway, Czarist Russia and the Soviet Union, Canadian provinces, and Canada's federal government (Jack S. ...

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Prohibition was doomed from the start because it was almost impossible to control the large flow of illegal liquor from various countries, mainly Canada. "Bootleggers smuggled liquor from oversees and Canada, stole it from government warehouses, and produced their own." ... Ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1919 brought to prominence those officers charged with investigating criminal violations of the Internal Revenue law, including illicit manufacture of liquors. ...

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American Prohibition "After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacturing, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation there of, or the exploitation there of from the US and all its territories subject to the jurisdiction there of for beverage purposes is here by prohibited" (Antony 121). These words marked a change in the American way of life forever. The law was intended to improve America and show the rest of the world that a country could survive without alcohol. Instead it led Americans to distrust and hate go...

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