Episode 153: Prohibition and Constitutional Constraints
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The Foolishness of the Week
This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of Prohibition. The 18th Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919 and declared there will be no more liquor in the U.S., at least not legally. All manner of people started looking for ways to get around it; we had what, the birth of the speakeasies? That's right. Come to find out, there was a group of people who realized maybe they should have paid and paying attention to politics all along. They took this as an opportunity to maybe break the law a little bit and make a lot of money. And so, my aunt Rose in Waterbury, Connecticut, would deliver jugs of whiskey to
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