Assertion: prohibition | /r/CapableOf | demonstrate federal overreach
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text: Popular understandings of Prohibition are enveloped in five major myths: that alcohol use increased between 1920 and 1933 as a kind of social spite against the law, that alcohol-related deaths spiked as a result of this binge, that violence exploded with crime syndicates battling for control of the illegal liquor trade, that Prohibition demonstrated federal overreach and intrusion into a business previously handled by the states and localities, and that the amendment was repealed in 1933 in reaction to all of these.