Finally, a Fake Holiday We Can Support

CATEGORY: Booze, Prohibition, Celebration

DIVISION: Modern Evil

NOTE: What better excuse is there to get grinning-drunk on a Friday than Dewar's Repeal Day Celebration. December 5th, 75 years ago, prohibition was washed away by an amber wave of booze as America returned to her senses as well as her national partying ways. Not only was it a victory for democracy, but it was a realization that without liquor we are very, very dull.
























The 21st Amendment

Ratified December 5, 1933

Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use there in of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.


The 18th Amendment

Ratified January 16, 1919

Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.


Dewar's Repeal Day Celebration is this Friday, December 5, 2008.