Okay, I'm not a legal scholar but here's what I recall from my American History classes in college:
The Temperance Movement was adamant about making Prohibition permanent. Congress could have simply passed legislation prohibiting manufacture and sale of alcohol as some States and counties had done and it would have been banned.
The leaders of the Temperance Movement felt that this could be easily repealed with each new Congress and/or President so they sought a permanent solution: an amendment to the constitution. Much harder to repeal an amendment. In fact at the time I don't believe an amendment had ever been repealed but lots of different federal laws had been repealed. So after much arm twisting , corruption, and payoffs they got their amendment and figured that was the end of booze.
The Volstead Act, passed by congress, was legislation that simply dealt with the enforcement part of Prohibition.
I'll leave it up to real legal scholars here but I don't think you're going find a God given right in the Constitution that says you have right to alcohol.
>>I’ll leave it up to real legal scholars here but I don’t think you’re going find a God given right in the Constitution that says you have right to alcohol.
“liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”??
I’m not arguing in favor of this stupid law. I just think that we’ve accepted enough restrictions on gun ownership that they are now legally able to enact just about anything they want using whatever precedents they choose to use.
Which is why we have the guns in the first place. Sometimes the “consent of the governed” has to be forcefully revoked.
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