This year marks the 80th anniversary of the 21st Amendment. Has it achieved its intended purpose?

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the 21st Amendment. Has it achieved its intended purpose?

Introduction

When any official, authorized or legal alteration is made to any law, contract or a constitution the term is known as Amendment. These alterations in the laws or contracts can change or eliminate as well as add any part that are grounded on the verb to modify; which means to transform. Contracts are usually amended on the foundation of vacillations in the market trends. However, constitutions on the other hand amended on the basis of people. When people changes their mind set over the activities of the government. So as the twenty first amendment of the United States, as it was a undeviating retort to the eighteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States. The following paper discusses this is detail.

Discussion

Background

Alcohol is a part of almost every other culture in the world especially of the modern culture. People all around the world consume alcohol in order to relax, to celebrate to socialize or even for its taste. Some societies all around the sphere are facing the challenge that they are balancing the place with the alcohol and the health issues in their societies. Many cultures prohibit alcohol due to religious hostiles, as their religion prohibits the consumption of alcohol. Such as Catholic, Indians, Muslims and etc. More or less same situations were being faced by the United States in the eighteenth century till early nineteenth century when many activist, most of them were Catholic came out of their houses in order to demand a barred over the consumption of almost any kind of liquors in United States. But later on, during the era of 1980s the activities of banning the alcohol had been mounted, which were mostly headed by the religious groups in the United States of America (Kelly, n.d). The purpose of those groups behind running and heading such movements was proposed by them as they believed that alcohol (intoxicating) beverages and especially drunkenness as a hazard to the nation. They usually categorized this practice as a “National Curse”. This revivalism sooner or later assisted in order to motivate the movement to end slavery also.

The first legislation held in place by Massachusetts which was appeared in 1838 according to that the sale of more than fifteen gallons of spirit was prohibited in Massachusetts. But this legislation was repealed right after two years of its commandment. This repealing gave birth to the Civil War. After taking decades these movements finally got proposed by the Congress Party in the late 1920s as eighteenth amendment. The eighteenth amendment puts a complete ban on the consumption, manufacturing and distribution of the intoxicating liquors all over the country but such bans proved problematic to impose nationwide and miscarried to have an envisioned effect of reducing crime rate countrywide. Such prohibition stated in the eighteenth amendment gave a terrific rise in the crime rate ...