Prohibition

Examples of Prohibition in the following topics:

• The Prohibition Movement

  • Prohibition was a major reform movement from the 1840s into the 1920s.
  • Its goal was to prohibit the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
  • Prohibition was mandated under the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S.
  • Legal and illegal home brewing was popular during Prohibition.
  • Prohibition marked one of the last stages of the Progressive Era.

• The 18th Amendment

  • The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
  • Following the 18th Amendment's adoption, prohibition effectively resulted in a public demand for illegal alcohol, making criminals of producers and consumers.
  • 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.

• The 10th Amendment

  • The Tenth Amendment states the Constitution's principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States or the people.
  • The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

• Prohibition

  • Prohibition was a national ban on the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol that lasted from 1920–1933.
  • A total of 1,520 Prohibition agents from three separate federal agencies – the Coast Guard Office of Law Enforcement, the Treasury Department/Internal Revenue Service Bureau of Prohibition, and the Department of Justice Bureau of Prohibition – were tasked with enforcing the new law.
  • As many as 10,000 people died from drinking denatured alcohol before Prohibition ended.
  • Prohibition had a large effect on music in the United States, specifically Jazz.
  • As Prohibition ended, some of its supporters, including industrialist and philanthropist John D.

• The 19th Amendment

  • The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.

• The Eighth Amendment

  • The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights prohibiting the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments.

• The Third Amendment

  • The Third Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits, in peacetime or wartime, the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent.

• The 21st Amendment

  • The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.
  • The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

• Lobbying Scandals and the Reforms of 2007

  • Details of the bill include closing the revolving door , prohibiting senators from gaining undue lobbying access by increasing the "cooling off" period before they can lobby Congress from one to two years, prohibiting cabinet secretaries and other senior executive personnel from lobbying the department or agency in which they worked for two years after they leave their position, and prohibiting senior Senate staff and officers from lobbying contacts with the entire Senate for one year, instead of just their former employing office.
  • The bill also includes numerous other prohibitions and requirements including:
  • Prohibits senior House staff from lobbying their former office or committee for one year after they leave House employment.
  • Prohibits members of Congress and their staff from influencing hiring decisions of private organizations on the sole basis of partisan political gain.
  • Prohibits lobbyists from providing gifts or travel to members of Congress with knowledge that the gift or travel is in violation of House or Senate rules.

• The 15th Amendment

  • The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits states from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race.
  • The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (for example, slavery).