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The Act that enforced the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the transport, manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was the National Prohibition Act of October 28, 1919, chapter 85, 41Stautes 305.It was codified at Title 27 Chapters 1 to 4. of the United States Code.he Act that enforced the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the transport, manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was the National Prohibition Act of October 28, 1919, chapter 85, 41Stautes 305.
If the deadline was not met, the Amendment would be discarded. The ratification of the 18th Amendment was completed on January 16th, 1919 and would take effect on January 17th, 1920.It is important to note that the 18th Amendment did not prohibit the consumption of alcohol, but rather simply the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.t was not until 1933, when the overall effects of the 18th Amendment would prove to be more negative than positive, that the 21st Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment completely and removed from Constitutional law.