Use for the traffic-versus-consumption distinction; precise legal applications should still be checked against the constitutional text, Volstead Act, and case law.
The chapter corrects the common shorthand that the amendment simply banned individual drinking.
Lisa M. F. Andersen emphasizes that the Eighteenth Amendment prohibited manufacture, sale, and transportation for beverage purposes but did not make personal consumption itself a federal crime; possession in a private dwelling and certain existing stocks occupied a different legal position.
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Myth 3 — The constitutional and statutory target
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