Of prohibition in the u. S. The National Constitution Center Hosted this event. The moderator is jeffrey rosen. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center i am jeffrey rosen, the president of this wonderful institution, the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis beautiful. So great to hear those wonderful words of our Inspiring Mission statement here in the beautifully renovated kimmel theater. Ladies and gentlemen, just a few months ago we opened up this gorgeous, new space, renovated with a great grant by the Kimmel Foundation and youre hearing me from these cool stateoftheart ted talk mics and these beautiful seats and im thrilled to see so many people here to celebrate the opening of the return of our great exhibit, american spirit [ applause ] i want you to go see it after the show, if you havent seen it yet, and cspan viewers, i want you to come to philade
The only information chartered beautiful. So great to hear those wonderful words of our Inspiring Mission statement here in the beautifully renovated theater. Just a few months ago, we opened up this gorgeous new space, and you are hearing me from these stateoftheart mikes on these beautiful new seats and i am thrilled to see so many people to celebrate the opening of the return of our great exhibit american spirits. [applause] it afteru to go see the show. Cspan viewers, i want you to come to philadelphia and see this beautiful exhibit which tells an amazing constitutional story. Incredible question how that happen . That america voluntarily by a vote of 46 states with only two states dissenting in 1919 decided to ban intoxicating liquors with the 18th amendment , bythen only 14 years later an overwhelming majority, changed its mind and repealed the 18th amendment, the only time in our history and amendment has been repealed and it took only 14 years. I hear a bravo from one of the ce
The only information chartered beautiful. So great to hear those wonderful words of our Inspiring Mission statement here in the beautifully renovated theater. Just a few months ago, we opened up this gorgeous new space, and you are hearing me from these stateoftheart mikes on these beautiful new seats and i am thrilled to see so many people to celebrate the opening of the return of our great exhibit american spirits. [applause] it afteru to go see the show. Cspan viewers, i want you to come to philadelphia and see this beautiful exhibit which tells an amazing constitutional story. Incredible question how that happen . That america voluntarily by a vote of 46 states with only two states dissenting in 1919 decided to ban intoxicating liquors with the 18th amendment , bythen only 14 years later an overwhelming majority, changed its mind and repealed the 18th amendment, the only time in our history and amendment has been repealed and it took only 14 years. I hear a bravo from one of the ce
Minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. I am the president of this wonderful institution. The only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. So great to hear those wonderful words of our Inspiring Mission statement here in the beautifully renovated theater. Ladies and gentlemen, just a few months ago we opened up this gorgeous new space renovated with the great foundation. And youre hearing me from the state of the art cool mics on these beautiful new seats. Its a thrill to see so many people here to celebrate the opening of the return of our great exhibit, american spirit. [applause] i want you to go see it after the show if you havent seen it yet and cspan viewers i want you to come to philadelphia to see this beautiful exhibit which tells an amazing constitutional story that we are going to talk about tonight. That is the constitutional story that poses an incredible question. How did it ha
Months ago we opened up this gorgeous new space renovated with the great foundation. And youre hearing me from the state of the art cool mics on these beautiful new seats. Its a thrill to see so many people here to celebrate the opening of the return of our great exhibit, american spirit. [applause] i want you to go see it after the show if you havent seen it yet and cspan viewers i want you to come to philadelphia to see this beautiful exhibit which tells an amazing constitutional story that we are going to talk about tonight. That is the constitutional story that poses an incredible question. How did it happen . How did it happen that america voluntarily by a vote of 46 states with only two states dissenting in 1919 decided essentially to ban intoxicating liquors with the 18th amendment and then only 14 years later by a similarly overwhelming majority of 46 states with only two states dissenting changed its mind and repealed the 18th amendment in the 21st amendment, if only time in o