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==History==
In the United States, once the[[Abolitionism in the United States|battle against slavery]] was won (indeed, even [[Maine law|before it]]), social moralists turned to other issues, such as [[Mormon polygamy]] and the "temperance" movement.<ref>Boyd Vincent, "Why the Episcopal Church Does Not Identify Herself Openly With Prohibition", ''The Church Messenger'', December 1915, reprinted in ''The Mixer and Server'', Volume 25, No. 2, pp. 25-27 (Feb. 15, 1916).</ref><ref>''E.g.'', Donald T. Critchlow and Philip R. VanderMeer, ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History'', 2012; Volume 1, pp. 47-51, 154.</ref>
The [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] proposed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 18, 1917.
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