Eighteenth Amendment.
18th
amendment 18
Thirteenth
It's called the Prohibition Amendment. The amendment itself did not ban the actual consumption of alcohol, but made obtaining it legally difficult. Here's the text. "Section 1. 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. Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress."
IT is not legal to mail alcohol anywhere in the US You can't. According to Publication 52 Hazardous, restricted, & perishable mail of the United States Postal Service, "Intoxicating liquors having 0.5 percent or more alcoholic content are nonmailable. This includes taxable liquors with 3.2 percent or less alcohol, as well as those obtained under a prescription or as a collector's item. The prohibition of the mailing of intoxicating liquors is contained in federal law (18 U.S.C. 1716)."
The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the manufacture, sale and importation of intoxicating liquors, was ratified on 16 January 1919. Its provisions went into force a year and a day later, on 17 January 1920. Prohibition remained in effect until the 18th Amendment was repealed by the 21st Amendment, which was ratified on 5 December 1933 with immediate effect.
The 18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established prohibition by banning "the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors".
The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment. The 18th Amendment had prohibited the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors in the United States as well as prohibiting the importation and exportation of intoxicating liquor. It ended the era of "Prohibition".
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale or transportation of all intoxicating liquors within, into or out of the United States - known as Prohibition. It took effect in January 1920. By 1933, people realized this was not as good idea as it had seemed, and the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment.
The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution was put into affect in 1920. The purpose was to abolish intoxicating liquors. There is no evidence that Protestants, who were the largest religious group in the country, opposed this amendment.
Short answer, no. Publication 52, Hazardous, Restricted & Perishable Mail states: 422.11 Intoxicating Liquors Intoxicating liquors having 0.5 percent or more alcoholic content are nonmailable. Taxable liquors with 3.2 percent or less alcohol, including those obtained under a prescription or as a collector's item, also are nonmailable. The prohibition of the mailing of intoxicating liquors is contained in federal law (18 USC 1716).
It guaranteed that the 18th amendment was repealed and, in the words of the constitution, Section 2: The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use there in of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
18th Amendment in 1919, law enforcement officials all over the nation were charged with stopping "the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States . . . for beverage purposes."
8th amendement outlaws cruel and unusual punishment.
Eightenth Amendment Section 1. Ban on Alcohol: 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 puposes is hereby prohibted. The 21st. Amendment repealed it.(1933)
amendment 18
The Volstead Act set down methods of enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment and defined which intoxicating liquors were prohibited, and which were excluded from prohibition. The Amendment was the first to set a time delay before it would take effect following ratification, and the first to set a time limit for its ratification by the states.