use of liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed." How did we go from one of our most respected founding fathers to this, a mere one hundred forty years later when people started to raise eyebrows to the use of alcohol?
             Wayne Wheeler, a lawyer from the Anti-Saloon League was a major player who put much of the leg work into the getting the bill developed. However, it was Andrew J. Volstead; a U.S. Representative from the Minnesota Seventh Congressional district who was the person to sponsor the bill before congress; thus, the creator and pursuer of what is commonly known as the Volstead Act. "The enforcement arm of the Eighteenth amendment was the Volstead Act which placed the authority to enforce the amendment in the lap of the Treasury Department and defined what legally constituted an alcoholic beverage. The strictness of this definition finally dispelled any notions that the brewers had of being able to avoid catastrophe. Their products were banned also." Andrew Volstead was committed to his duty to bring a sponsored bill on Prohibition before Congress. "Volstead was in favor of prohibition, and was also an outspoken supporter of civil rights and civil rights legislation such as an Anti-lynching Law. Interestingly, in the election after Prohibition had been enforced, Andrew Volstead was not reelected. Maybe that tells us how his constituents felt about prohibition." 3. It cannot be denied, that although Prohibition was formed with good intentions, it offered organized crime an avenue to develop rapidly. The demand for the illegal substance by ordinarily law-abiding citizens now coupled with the growth of organized crime created a perfect concoction for furthering organized crime to rapidly expand. Initially, the Amendment worked. Naturally, for a short time, liquor consumption was on the decline and arrests for drunkenness fell. The lay-man could no longer afford the price for il...