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Message to Congress on Repeal of the Volstead Act.

Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1933-03-13 · other · app · 450 chars · original · plain text

Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Message to Congress on Repeal of the Volstead Act.," 1933-03-13. The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/message-congress-repeal-the-volstead-act

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assessment Resubmit the Eighteenth Amendment so each state may decide, with constitutional guarantees against the saloon and against interference with dry states; enforce the law meanwhile
mechanism Message on repeal of the Volstead Act
mechanism Congress proposes the Twenty-first Amendment

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To the Congress: I recommend to the Congress the passage of legislation for the immediate modification of the Volstead Act, in order to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer and other beverages of such alcoholic content as is permissible under the Constitution; and to provide through such manufacture and sale, by substantial taxes, a proper and much-needed revenue for the Government. I deem action at this time to be of the highest importance.