Prohibition, under the 18th Amendment, prevented the legal manufacture, sale & distribution of alcoholic beverages in the US ...

The Edo State House of Assembly on Tuesday approved death sentence for kidnappers in the state. DAILY POST reports that the ...

WHEELING, West Va., Jan. 25.--The House of Delegates to-day ordered the prohibition amendment to the Constitution to its final reading by an overwhelming vote, refusing all propositions to modify it.

Last year, on the basis of recent elections, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment estimated that not less than 27 Senators were ready to submit the 18th Amendment to the States (TIME ...

President Truman quipped that it was “one of the worst that has been put into the Constitution, except for the Prohibition Amendment.” We were startled to find The New York Sun itself was untypically ...

While same-sex marriages are currently allowed in Missouri, and the statutory ban has only a symbolic effect, senators voted ...

holding that the federal Gun Control Act's prohibition on the sale of firearms to persons under 21 years old, as applied to adults aged 18 to 20 years old, violates the Second Amendment.

President Trump signed an order reinstating what's known as the Mexico City Policy. Critics say it will cut funding essential for health care in developing nations.

Prohibition came as a result of the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution with rules for the change controlled by the Volstead Act. Bootleg liquor became common via organized crime ...