Prohibition and the Scopes Trial

Do you think the passage of the Volstead Act and the ruling in the Scopes trial represented genuine triumphs for traditional values?

The Volstead Act represented a failure of traditonal values. It was made for a cause that most people didn't want. It was a law most people ignored. It was only the values of white proteastans and therefore it was a failure for the people. The white protestans were the minority of the Americans. Immigrants outnumbered them and the traditional value of America was a government for the people and by the people. This was a thing the minority wanted not the majority so the government was then for the few and by the few.

The Scopes trial was also a failure of traditonal values. Yes, while people have the right to believe what they want which is a constitutional ammendment, people can't force their beliefs one others. The freedom of religon/belief was one America was founded on and therefore people shouldn't be able to control and restrict other people's beliefs. The Scopes trial failed the basic values of America. Under no sercumstance except war could people's constituitonal rights be taken away. By taking this right away America is no longer a government by the people. By denying the people to learn all the options and theirfore choose what they believe for themselves we aren't free.