Twenty-First Amendment  Repeal of Prohibition

• Section 1 Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment
  • Overview of Twenty-First Amendment, Repeal of Prohibition
  • Historical Background
    • The Eighteenth Amendment and Prohibition
    • Problems with the Eighteenth Amendment and Prohibition
    • The Repeal Movement and the 1932 Presidential Election
    • Drafting of the Twenty-First Amendment
    • Ratification of the Twenty-First Amendment
    • Repeal of Prohibition
• Section 2 Importation, Transportation, and Sale of Liquor
  • Scope of the States’ Section 2 Powers over Interstate and Foreign Commerce in Alcoholic Beverages
  • Overview of State Power over Alcohol and Discrimination Against Interstate Commerce
  • Early Doctrine on State Power over Alcohol and Discrimination Against Interstate Commerce
  • Modern Doctrine on State Power over Alcohol and Discrimination Against Interstate Commerce
  • Imports, Exports, Foreign Commerce, and Alcohol
  • Regulation of Alcohol Destined for a Federal Area
  • State Power over Alcohol and Individual Rights
  • State Power over Alcohol and First Amendment Free Speech and Religion Clauses
  • Alcohol Regulation and the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses
  • State and Federal Regulation of Alcohol Sales
  • State and Federal Regulation of Minimum Drinking Age
• Section 3 Ratification Deadline
  • Ratification Deadline, State Ratifying Conventions, and the Twenty-First Amendment