Existing comment:
Abolish Saturday Nights, Too
Some people couldn't let it go, even five years after the 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition. But instead of prohibiting alcohol sales, this amendment proposed to regulate personal behavior by prohibiting drunkenness. The absurdity of this was cheekily pointed out in the handwritten note at the bottom, which proposed adding an equally far-fetched effort to abolish Saturday nights.
Transcription of handwritten note:
Why not add:
Section 3. That period of time, commonly known as Saturday night, is hereby stricken from the calendar of the United States, and abolished.
Section 4. Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to change human nature from time to time in its or their discretion.
H.J. Res 661 to propose a constitutional amendment to prohibit drunkenness, with handwritten note, April 21, 1938, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives |