Blog Heap of Links for the day 15 December 2017

…On this day in 1933 the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially became effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. An interesting note on this amendment is that it is the only amendment that has been ratified by state conventions and not the legislatures. The State legislatures were still packed with prohibitionists who would not have ratified it so they sent it directly to conventions nominated by the people.