[AntiGuv]

I'm uncertain whether the 18th Amendment was passed under such circumstances; I'd have to review the history. However, I've condemned the 18th for a different though relevant reason: that it limited the Constitutional rights, liberties, and freedoms of the American people (the only amendment to have done so to date).

If the 18th did not also suffer from implementation by "mob rule" then that just condemns the proposed 28th all the more profoundly, IMHO...

[aristeides]

Politicians were very much afraid of voter retaliation when they passed the 18th Amendment. Women were getting the vote all across the country (most states gave it to them before the 19th Amendment,) and the suffragettes were arch-supporters of Prohibition. But I'd be very surprised if more than 35% of the population supported the amendment strongly. I should think there are almost no issues on which over 35% of the population feels strongly in one direction. Politics in general gets done by committed minorities. If 35% of the American people feels strongly about the FMA, that is really quite a high number. Especially if you're right about only 20% feeling strongly against.

And it mystifies me that you should call the working of normal democratic politics "mob rule."