If you had been president, secretary of state, or a leading senator in the period 1898-1917, with the power to alter U. S. foreign policy, what, if anything, would you have changed? What leads
you to believe that your change of policy would not only have been desirable but successful?

overview. prohibition was a nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1920 to 1933. prohibition led directly to the rise of organized crime. the twenty-first amendment, ratified in december 1933, repealed prohibition.

examples that illustrates limits on texas governor´s power are: it can remove only its own appointees; the judiciary is elected; needs senatorial confirmation.