[steve-b]

So when the 21st amendment repealed Prohibition, the power went back to the states, right?

The Twenty-First amendment expressly granted a federal power to assist in the enforcement of state prohibition. Yet more proof that the federal government had hitherto had no such power.

[robertpaulsen]

"The Twenty-First amendment expressly granted a federal power to assist in the enforcement of state prohibition. Yet more proof that the federal government had hitherto had no such power."

Hmmmm. A federal power to assist in the enforcement of state prohibition? Boy that sounds a lot like the 1913 Webb-Kenyon Act.

Hitherto that!