News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The United States’ Unamendable Constitution. Parent comment

Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution by pasquinelli on Thursday October 27, 2022 @12:20AM (#33353053)
> If you want to make a change that half the country is dead against, all the systems of balance of power will work against it (two chambers - one by headcount the other by states, filibuster, presidential veto, high threshold of consensus for changing the constitution), as it should.

which is why prohabition never happened.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution by TeeMassive on Thursday October 27, 2022 @12:32AM (#33353136)
Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime.

At the time (and still to this day) alcohol and drugs made and destroyed empires. The Dutch Empire was based on Gin. The British Empire on Opium and Rhum. Russia on Vodka. France had Bourbon.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday October 27, 2022 @01:00AM (#33353309)
> Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime.

Is that a bit like "the sun stopped coming up, until the sun came up the next day" ?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution by TeeMassive on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:20PM (#33365890)
Or that they saw the immediate effect but the consequences after that. Hindsight is 20/20.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution by parkingrift on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:45AM (#33355334)
You could also rewrite this sentence to say that prohibition created organized crime.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution by pjc50 on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:05AM (#33356307)
> Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime

I have never seen this claim made before and would like some evidence for it.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution by TeeMassive on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:24PM (#33365924)
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibit...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution by naasking on Thursday October 27, 2022 @09:04AM (#33356870)
> Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime.

I think you mean, that nearly everyone became a criminal overnight when Prohibition was passed, because they didn't just stop drinking.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution by twblalock on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:05PM (#33387511)
Prohibition and the temperance movement in general enjoyed wide popular support, and many states had already introduced restrictions on alcohol before the constitution was amended.
[ Parent | on HN ]