beer-and-wine

Updated: June 12, 2025

But whether this be so or not, it is quite plain that Congress, if it really wishes to do so, can put the country into the position where Prohibition will either draw the line above the beer-and-wine point or go out altogether. Certainly there is nothing unconstitutional in repealing the Volstead act.

Fabian Franklin - What Prohibition Has Done to America

Now an Amendment repealing the Eighteenth Amendment but at the same time conferring upon Congress the power to make laws concerning the manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquors, would make it possible for Congress to pass a Volstead act, or a beer-and-wine act, or no Liquor act at all, just as its own judgment or desire might dictate.

Fabian Franklin - What Prohibition Has Done to America