Archive Report
Archive Report
The Parties and the Eighteenth Amendment
The Party Leaders and the Wickersham Report
A decision upholding the validity of the Eighteenth Amendment was handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of United States v. Sprague and Howey on February 24, 1931. The report of the Wickersham Commission proposing a revision of the Eighteenth Amendment was transmitted to Congress on January 20, 1931. During the five weeks that elapsed between the two events lively debates on the social, economic, and political aspects of national prohibition took place in Congress and the state legislatures. Out of the discussion of the political phases of the problem has come the interesting suggestion that one or both parties may stand in 1932 for a resubmission ...