Did you know that the 21st Amendment in the U.S. constitution is the only amendment in U.S. history that cancels out another amendment? On December 17, 1917, the House of Representatives voted 282 to 128 to approve the 18th amendment and make the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol illegal in the United States. But in 1933, by a huge majority, but the Senate and the House of Representatives voted to remove the 18th Amendment. Why did America change its mind about prohibition? Well, there are many reasons they sort of “regretted” prohibition.
The first reason changed its mind about prohibition is because it raised the crime or street violence rate went to an all-time high after prohibition. The homicide rate in 1918, the year …show more content…
According to The Inside of Prohibition by Mabel Walker Willebrandt says that senators and congressmen have appeared on the floor in a drunken condition and bootleggers infested the halls and corridors of congress and ply their trade there. Basically, prohibition stopped nothing. Instead of everyone obeying the law, people just sold illegally as if they didn’t care. People also lost respect for the Government and the law enforcement. No one respected the law and the majority of society went against the laws.
The last reason America changed its mind about prohibition is because the government was no longer getting the sin tax off of alcohol because alcohol was now an illegal substance. According to The New Crusade by Leslie Gordon, if the liquor now sold by bootleggers was legally sold, regulated, and taxed, the tax income would pay the interest on the entire local and national debt and leave $2000,000,000 for urgently needed purposes. But the government was no longer getting all this money from alcohol and people were still drinking and not obeying the
The first reason changed its mind about prohibition is because it raised the crime or street violence rate went to an all-time high after prohibition. The homicide rate in 1918, the year …show more content…
According to The Inside of Prohibition by Mabel Walker Willebrandt says that senators and congressmen have appeared on the floor in a drunken condition and bootleggers infested the halls and corridors of congress and ply their trade there. Basically, prohibition stopped nothing. Instead of everyone obeying the law, people just sold illegally as if they didn’t care. People also lost respect for the Government and the law enforcement. No one respected the law and the majority of society went against the laws.
The last reason America changed its mind about prohibition is because the government was no longer getting the sin tax off of alcohol because alcohol was now an illegal substance. According to The New Crusade by Leslie Gordon, if the liquor now sold by bootleggers was legally sold, regulated, and taxed, the tax income would pay the interest on the entire local and national debt and leave $2000,000,000 for urgently needed purposes. But the government was no longer getting all this money from alcohol and people were still drinking and not obeying the