Prohibition

(noun)

A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.

Related Terms

Examples of Prohibition in the following topics:

  • The 18th Amendment

    • The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
    • Following the 18th Amendment's adoption, prohibition effectively resulted in a public demand for illegal alcohol, making criminals of producers and consumers.
    • After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

  • The 10th Amendment

    • The Tenth Amendment states the Constitution's principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States or the people.
    • The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

  • The 19th Amendment

    • The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.

  • The Eighth Amendment

    • The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights prohibiting the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments.

  • The Third Amendment

    • The Third Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits, in peacetime or wartime, the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent.

  • The 21st Amendment

    • The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.
    • The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

  • Lobbying Scandals and the Reforms of 2007

    • Details of the bill include closing the revolving door , prohibiting senators from gaining undue lobbying access by increasing the "cooling off" period before they can lobby Congress from one to two years, prohibiting cabinet secretaries and other senior executive personnel from lobbying the department or agency in which they worked for two years after they leave their position, and prohibiting senior Senate staff and officers from lobbying contacts with the entire Senate for one year, instead of just their former employing office.
    • The bill also includes numerous other prohibitions and requirements including:
    • Prohibits senior House staff from lobbying their former office or committee for one year after they leave House employment.
    • Prohibits members of Congress and their staff from influencing hiring decisions of private organizations on the sole basis of partisan political gain.
    • Prohibits lobbyists from providing gifts or travel to members of Congress with knowledge that the gift or travel is in violation of House or Senate rules.

  • The 15th Amendment

    • The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits states from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race.
    • The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (for example, slavery).

  • Authorization and Appropriation

    • Points of order also prohibit certain provisions in appropriations measures.
    • For instance, the House and Senate prohibit language in appropriations bills that provides appropriations not authorized by law, also known as unauthorized appropriations.
    • Language in an appropriations bill that provides legislation on the bill is additionally prohibited.
    • Meanwhile, the aforementioned language prohibitions in appropriations bills sometimes gets passed in the bills either because no one raised a point of order or the House and Senate waived the rules.

  • Powers Denied to Congress

    • Congress has numerous prohibited powers dealing with habeas corpus, regulation of commerce, titles of nobility, ex post facto and taxes.
    • The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit (referring to the slave trade) shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.