The Pros And Cons Of National Prohibition

The fifth section of this article is the focus of this annotated bibliography summary. Blocker reports on the possibilities as to why the National Prohibition was abolished after a decade of imposition. He first explains that the Volstead Act, the legislation piece enacted to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, was immediately drafted after the passage of the Amendment’s passage, thus leading to a confusion among statesman and voter as to what the Act was prohibiting. He then proceeds to explain that “enforcement of the Volstead Act constituted National Prohibition’s Achilles’ heel”, but states that it “does not follow that such a lapse undermined political support for Prohibition.” Two other possibilities presented argue that