[FormerLurker]

[It banned the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.]

False. Read it. I HAVE read it Roscoe. If you mean I used the word alcohol instead of intoxicating liquors, or that I forgot to add "for beverage purposes", stop playing semantic word games...

Perhaps YOU should read it Roscoe.

Article XVIII

Proposed by Congress December 19, 1917; proclaimed adopted January 29, 1919.

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Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. ¹⁸⁴

[Roscoe]

intoxicating liquors

Exactly. Beer and wine were legal. Now, who was given the power of defining "intoxicating liquor?"