"Maybe you don't understand that in order to make a 'sinful' behavior 'illegal' nationwide the States felt it necessary to pass an Amendment back in 1919."
You have given me a great opportunity to teach you again.
They felt it necessary to pass a constitutional amendment, because they knew that Congress could make no such prohibition of liquor, because the 10th Amendment reserved the prohibition of liquor as a State power.
The tee-totalling zealots wanted to give Congress the power to prohibit liquor, hence the need for section 2:
"Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. "
Congress did not have the power, before the 18th Amendment, only states did, and ever since the 21st was ratified, only states do.
The Eighteenth Amendment only prohibited "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors . . . for beverage purposes."
An individual could still make beer & wine for personal use. Alcohol could be made for medicinal uses, etc. The individuals rights were not "outlawed"
You have given me a great opportunity to teach you again.
Hugh, you have a fantasy about 'teaching' people lessons. Give it up. Makes you look like a clown.
They felt it necessary to pass a constitutional amendment, because they knew that Congress could make no such prohibition of liquor, because the 10th Amendment reserved the prohibition of liquor as a State power.
No such 'power' has ever been given to our States by the people. -- Our rights to life, liberty & property, with due process of law, are inalienable. Fiat prohibitional 'laws' are unconstitutional infringements on due process.
The tee-totalling zealots wanted to give Congress the power to prohibit liquor, hence the need for section 2: "Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. " Congress did not have the power, before the 18th Amendment, only states did, and ever since the 21st was ratified, only states do.
States only 'think' they have that power. It is moot. Any adult in any State can order booze delivered from out of state sources, regardless of State 'laws'.
--- And-, -- an individual can still make beer & wine for personal use. Alcohol can be made for preservation & medicinal uses, etc.
The individuals rights were never "outlawed"