Actually, they DID have the power to ban alcohol, by Amendment to the US Constitution.
The fact that they couldn’t enforce it was the prime driver in the rescission of that Amendment.
7 posted on 04/24/2014 12:43:20 PM PDT by PubliusMM
(RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)