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A Nation of Lawbreakers
Always controversial, the societal consensus regarding Prohibition crumbled. Like many others, these petitioners concluded that the attempt to enforce "moral" behavior had backfired. Prohibition had instead handed a booming business to gangsters, and legalizing alcohol again would lower crime and provide tax revenue. In 1933, the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment -- the only time one amendment has negated another.
Letter from Pitze's Beauty Parlor Supply in favor of repeal of Prohibition, December 8, 1932, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives
"Why don't they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition did, in five years we will have the smartest people on earth."
-- Will Rogers |