21st AMENDMENT: Gives states the power to regulate the sale of alcoholic beverages within their borders. This repealed the 18th Amendment, passed January 16, 1920, which prohibited the importing, exporting, transporting, selling and manufacturing of all intoxicating liquor. The ratification of the 21st Amendment in 1933 marked the end of Prohibition.
WEBB-KENYON ACT: The Act of March 1, 1913 was adopted into the Constitution of the United States to control the interstate transportation and shipment of alcohol beverages. The text follows:
"The shipment or transportation, in any manner or by any means whatsoever, of any spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquor of any kind, from one State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country into any State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, which said spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquor is intended, by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold, or in any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is hereby prohibited."
... Or, in other words, it gave each state the broad right to control the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages within its boundaries.
