Today In History

(History) Congress proposed the 21st Amendment to end Fucking Prohibition in the United States.

Prohibition, was mandated by The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, with the ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, with the Volstead Act, which smacked down rules for enforcing the ban, as well as defining what types of alcoholic beverages were prohibited.

The Volstead Act, was the enabling legislation for the Eighteenth Amendment. The Anti-Saloon League‘s Wayne Wheeler conceived and drafted the bill, which was named for Andrew John Volstead, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who managed the legislation.

Check it. Congress proposed the Twenty-first Amendment on February 20, 1933.