Roscoe: That wasn't what they were being pressured to do.
But WHY the pressure for a Constitutional Amendment when a simple Act of Congress would have sufficed? You are playing semantic games here Roscoe. You claim Congress felt no need to pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting liquor, yet you state that they were being pressured to do so, and accordingly proposed and submitted the 18th Amendment to the States.
It seems to me that IF an Act of Congress would have been sufficient to prohibit liquor, they could have easily done so in order to placate those who were opposed to liquor.
Constitutional Amendments are not proposed and ratified willy nilly in order to appease popular opinion, especially when a simple Act of Congress would have had the same effect.
"Sufficed" for what?