What Prohibition Has Done to America

Author(s)

• Fabian Franklin

In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Beginning in 1920, this Amendment prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages in the United States, until it was repealed in 1933. Franklin contends that the Amendment "is not only a crime against the Constitution of the United States, and not only a crime against the whole spirit of our Federal system, but a crime against the first principles of rational government." Writing only two years after Prohibition began, he correctly predicts many of its disastrous consequences, such as runaway bootlegging and organized crime. The book is both a passionate defense of liberty, and a reminder to Americans of the perils of surrendering it. (Summary by Leon Mire)

1. 01 - Perverting the Constitution
2. 02 - Creating a Nation of Lawbreakers
3. 03 - Destroying Our Federal System
4. 04 - How the Amendment Was Put Through
5. 05 - The Law Makers and the Law
6. 06 - The Law Enforcers and the Law
7. 07 - Nature of the Prohibitionist Tyranny
8. 08 - One Half of One Percent
9. 09 - Prohibition and Liberty
10. 10 - Prohibition and Socialism
11. 11 - Is There Any Way Out?