>> after one year from the ratification of this article, the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors ourselves within the importation thereof, into or the exportation thereof from the united states and all territories subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. >> hereby prohibited. the 18th amendment banned booze. it was an incredibly stupid thing that our country did. it was, in fact, part of the constitution at one point. lots of other dumb and evil stuff has been part of the constitution from time to time. like, for example, the three-fifths compromise that declared representation and taxes should be aportioned among the states that excluded indians and included all other persons as three-fifths of a person. there was part of article iv