18th and 21st Amendments Quizzes
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around 18th and 21st Amendments? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Every Amendment, including the 18th and 21st, is written in a specialized dialect called "Legal English." Why?
Legal English is precise in its word choice, so it helps eliminate ambiguity.
It confuses the meaning enough so that more prosecutions can be made.
Only people with law degrees should be allowed to understand it.
What, you want it to be Illegal English?
Q. What's the purpose of Section 1 of both Amendments?
To delineate the actual law
To explain why such a law is necessary
To show how the law can be enforced
To include some great cocktail recipes
Q. The 21st Amendment mentions "Possessions" of the United States. What do they mean?
Places that are owned by the United States, but are not states, like Guam, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico
Non-contiguous states like Alaska and Hawaii
National parks
America's comic book collection in the National Archives
Q. What incongruous point does the 21st Amendment make?
By specifically pointing out that it does not repeal state or local law, it defends states' rights.
By repealing a Constitutional Amendment, it reaffirms the wisdom of never amending the Constitution.
By having it be ratified by a convention rather than legislature, it creates a new blueprint for law.
Due to a wording irregularity, it accidentally outlawed ping pong.
Q. What was the only significant legal opposition that Prohibition faced until its repeal?
Woodrow Wilson's veto, which was overridden
The Supreme Court case Capone v. Chicago
Wayne Wheeler's drunk driving conviction
The court case of Prohibition v. Everyone in the U.S.