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Dear Sonny M,

Here is the 18th Amendment:

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Amendment XVIII - Liquor abolished. Ratified 1/16/1919.

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.

2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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.

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It appears that here we have a constitutional amendment that makes something illegal (the production and sale of alcohol), but permits it for one year after the ratification of the amendment.

Your reasoning is good, Sonny M.

There is no reason why we could not first pass an amendment that read:

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Amendment XXVIII

1. After two years [or three years, or four year, or five years - whatever folks think we need for a transition] from the ratification of this article, the sixteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed.

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What do you think, Sonny M?

Is this impossible?

Is it that this amendment could not be passed before the NRST is passed?

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