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Pros And Cons Of The 18th Amendment

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The 18th amendment, or the prohibition law was a good and a bad thing for America in many ways. Prohibition was enacted to stop the derotation and violence of men against their wife and kids with the use of alcohol, and many people thought that alcohol was an ungodly corrupted thing in America which is why the 18th amendment was enacted to try to eliminate and dangers of alcohol. Alcohol was prohibited in many states before it became a law in the 1920’s for the whole state. Even though the government and women enacted the 18th amendment to prohibit alcohol to make things better in the US only made things worse and some things good that America’s wouldn’t even know would happen.After America saw what this 18th amendment was doing to the country they saw that it was silly to prohibit alcohol in the first place just to cause a lot of problems in the future which America did unintentionally. …show more content…

Of course it would seem like a good idea to prohibit alcohol because nobody really saw what the cons of this law would cause to America later on as time goes

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