Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: State Convention Records and LawsBrown, Everett Somerville. Ratification of the Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: State Convention Records and Laws. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1938. xi, 718 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002072857. ISBN 1-58477-278-6. Cloth. $125. * Enacted in 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment instituted prohibition. It was repealed in 1933 with the passage of the Twenty-First amendment. This book collects all available state records relating to the amendment's ratification by those state conventions. An invaluable assemblage of source documents that present an accurate history of the ratification of the Twenty-First amendment. |
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... vention from being a convention as intended by Article 5 of the Constitution of the United States , the justices advised in the negative . They held that a convention was more truly representative when expressing the known will of the ...
... vention from being a convention as intended by Article 5 of the Constitution of the United States , the justices advised in the negative . They held that a convention was more truly representative when expressing the known will of the ...
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... vention . " Similarly , attention was repeatedly called to the fact that for the first time an amendment was being repealed . Speaker after speaker in the various conventions stressed the theme of our federal form of government and ...
... vention . " Similarly , attention was repeatedly called to the fact that for the first time an amendment was being repealed . Speaker after speaker in the various conventions stressed the theme of our federal form of government and ...
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... vention . ELECTION OF PERMANENT SECRETARY Mrs. Wideman placed in nomination Mrs. Solon Jacobs for Permanent Secretary . Mr. Gullage placed in nomination Hon . John T. Bartlett for Permanent Secre- tary . At the request of Mr. Bartlett ...
... vention . ELECTION OF PERMANENT SECRETARY Mrs. Wideman placed in nomination Mrs. Solon Jacobs for Permanent Secretary . Mr. Gullage placed in nomination Hon . John T. Bartlett for Permanent Secre- tary . At the request of Mr. Bartlett ...
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... vention a motion to adjourn was in order . Motion by Delegate Proctor , seconded by Delegate Phelps , that the Convention be adjourned sine die . Carried and at 1:40 P.m. Tuesday , September 5 , 1933 the Con- vention so adjourned ...
... vention a motion to adjourn was in order . Motion by Delegate Proctor , seconded by Delegate Phelps , that the Convention be adjourned sine die . Carried and at 1:40 P.m. Tuesday , September 5 , 1933 the Con- vention so adjourned ...
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... vention : H. H. Cotton S. F. B. Morse Sheridan Peterson Roy M. Hardy James M. Murphy Felton Taylor William B. Hornblower Henry E. Harwood Grace Montgomery R. L. Hughes B. W. Gearhart John A. Parma Dr. Patrick M. Walker Eleanor Banning ...
... vention : H. H. Cotton S. F. B. Morse Sheridan Peterson Roy M. Hardy James M. Murphy Felton Taylor William B. Hornblower Henry E. Harwood Grace Montgomery R. L. Hughes B. W. Gearhart John A. Parma Dr. Patrick M. Walker Eleanor Banning ...
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SOUTH CAROLINA | 375 |
TENNESSEE | 379 |
VERMONT | 386 |
VIRGINIA | 434 |
WASHINGTON | 450 |
WEST VIRGINIA | 479 |
WISCONSIN | 491 |
WYOMING | 497 |
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IOWA | 150 |
KENTUCKY | 166 |
MAINE | 180 |
MARYLAND | 186 |
MASSACHUSETTS | 204 |
MICHIGAN | 214 |
MINNESOTA | 234 |
MISSOURI | 237 |
TEXAS | 241 |
MONTANA | 265 |
NEVADA | 274 |
NEW HAMPSHIRE | 277 |
NEW JERSEY | 280 |
NEW MEXICO | 290 |
NEW YORK | 292 |
OHIO | 320 |
UTAH | 328 |
OREGON | 337 |
PENNSYLVANIA | 346 |
RHODE ISLAND | 359 |
INTRODUCTION | 515 |
FLORIDA | 549 |
ILLINOIS | 557 |
MARYLAND | 579 |
MINNESOTA | 591 |
MONTANA | 598 |
NEW HAMPSHIRE | 610 |
NEW MEXICO | 617 |
NORTH CAROLINA | 628 |
OHIO | 634 |
OKLAHOMA | 638 |
OREGON | 642 |
PENNSYLVANIA | 646 |
RHODE ISLAND | 650 |
SOUTH CAROLINA | 657 |
SOUTH DAKOTA | 660 |
TENNESSEE | 664 |
TEXAS | 670 |
UTAH | 675 |
VERMONT | 679 |
VIRGINIA | 682 |
WASHINGTON | 687 |
WEST VIRGINIA | 690 |
WISCONSIN | 695 |
WYOMING | 698 |
INDEX | 701 |
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18th Amendment 21st amendment adjourn adopted America appointed article of amendment ballot candidates Capitol Cascade County Chair recognizes Charles citizens City Clackamas County Clerk Committee on Resolutions Constitution by conventions Constitutional Convention Coos County copy County Multnomah County declared District duly elected DWIGHT H Eighteenth Amendment eighteenth article favor filed Frank Governor Harry held hereby prohibited hereby repealed Honorable House of Representatives inoperative unless intoxicating liquors James John Joseph Lane County laws thereof Legislature Loring Young Marion County Missouri move Multnomah County Multnomah oath Ohio Portland present PRESIDENT SMITH proposed amendment Proposing an amendment question ratified by conventions ratify or reject repealing the Eighteenth Resolved Rhode Island Robert say Aye Sergeant-at-Arms session special election statute submission hereof temporary therein of intoxicating tion transportation or importation Twenty-first Amendment unanimously United vention vote voters West Nicholson WHEREAS William
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Page 48 - The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited. SECTION 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within...
Page 195 - JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...
Page 151 - Dominions ; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations.
Page 131 - When a question is under debate no motion shall be received but to adjourn; to lay on the table...
Page 455 - Joint Resolution. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...
Page 132 - No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment.
Page 97 - Secretary of State, have hereunto caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed and my name subscribed by the...
Page 3 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.