Liquor laws

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Liquor laws is a term that refers to any legislation dealing with the abolishment, restriction, or regulation of the sale, consumption, and manufacture of alcoholic beverages. The chief goals of these laws are the minimization of immoderate use of alcohol among citizens (which can often lead to an increase in crimes like drunk driving) and raising revenue via taxation.

The most famous of liquor laws is the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution enacted in 1920, which prohibited the sale and consumption of all alcoholic beverages, but, due to the increased amount of crime surrounding the illegal distribution of alcohol through unlicensed bars called "speakeasies," the amendment was later repealed with the Twenty-first Amendment. This era in United States History is often called the Prohibition.