About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

1 1 (June 26, 2023)

handle is hein.crs/govemay0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional ______ SA Research Service The Eighteenth Amendment and National Prohibition, Part 2: The Colonial Era June 26, 2023 This Legal Sidebar post is the second in a seven-part series that discusses the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Prior to its repeal, the Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes within the United States. Section 2 of the Amendment granted Congress and the state legislatures concurrent power to enforce nationwide Prohibition by enacting appropriate legislation. The Eighteenth Amendment was partly a response to the Supreme Court's pre-Prohibition Era Commerce Clause jurisprudence, which limited the federal and state governments' power over the liquor traffic. As such, the Eighteenth Amendment's history provides insight into the judicial evolution of the Commerce Clause, which operates as both a positive grant of legislative power to Congress and a limit on state authority to regulate commerce. Additional information on this topic will be published in the Constitution Annotated: Analysis and Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. Alcoholic Beverages in Colonial America Early colonial Americans drank, imported, and manufactured large quantities of alcoholic beverages. Shortly after arriving in the New World, the settlers of Great Britain's American colonies brewed beer and cider, believing these beverages to be safer to drink than water. By the mid-18th century, commercial distilleries in New England were producing large quantities of rum. At taverns and other establishments that served alcoholic drinks, Americans gathered to socialize, debate politics, and organize protests against British rule. After the Revolutionary War, for patriotic and practical reasons, many 18th-century Americans preferred to drink whiskey distilled from corn and grain, particularly on the Frontier. Like other early Americans, several Founders drank, bought, sold, or produced alcoholic beverages. For example, Thomas Jefferson, an avid wine connoisseur, once wrote that the light and high flavored wines were a necessary of life for him. At Jefferson's Monticello plantation, Peter Hemings, an enslaved person who worked as a cook and tailor, brewed an ale for family and guests. During the Revolutionary War, George Washington, who served as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, wrote that there should always be a sufficient quantity of spirits, with the army to furnish moderate supplies to the troops. After fulfilling his duties as the nation's first President and retiring to his Mount Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov LSB10986 CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most