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    The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. The amendment...
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    The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which...
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    Thirty-three amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification...
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    The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. It was ratified on December 15, 1791,...
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    the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...
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  • "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" is the eighteenth episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally...
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  • The Eighteenth Amendment may refer to: Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which established Prohibition Eighteenth Amendment of the...
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    colonial life in the United States, the passing of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1919 resulted in the prohibition of alcoholic...
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    Wayne Wheeler (category Prohibition in the United States)
    played a major role in the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which outlawed the manufacture, distribution, and sale...
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    The Fifth Amendment (Amendment V) to the United States Constitution creates several constitutional rights, limiting governmental powers focusing on criminal...
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  • The Temperance movement began over 40 years before the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was introduced. Across the country different...
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  • States Constitution on December 5, 1933. In 1919, the requisite number of state legislatures ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...
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    Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919. Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which...
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  • The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution takes effect, January 29, 1919 The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution takes...
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    Congress in December 1923 as a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution. The purpose of the ERA is to guarantee equal legal rights for all American...
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    Speakeasy (category 1920s in the United States)
    beverages was illegal throughout the United States, due to the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Speakeasies largely disappeared...
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  • Dry state (redirect from List of Dry States)
    in the United States. The resolution was sent to the states for ratification and became the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. On...
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    Article Two of the United States Constitution establishes the executive branch of the federal government, which carries out and enforces federal laws....
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  • constitutional amendment is a modification of the constitution of a polity, organization or other type of entity. Amendments are often interwoven into the relevant...
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  • Thumbnail for Article Five of the United States Constitution
    of the United States Constitution describes the procedure for altering the Constitution. Under Article Five, the process to alter the Constitution consists...
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    constitutional amendment. Article VII establishes the procedure subsequently used by the 13 states to ratify it. The Constitution of the United States is the oldest...
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    Public enemy (category Crime in the United States)
    were known to be consistent law breakers (most prominently in regard to the widely broken Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution banning...
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  • first with state laws then with the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1919. The golden day did not dawn as enforcement...
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    Wickersham Commission (category Prohibition in the United States)
    order to improve the American criminal justice system. During the 1928 presidential campaign Herbert Hoover supported the Eighteenth Amendment to the United...
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  • Dillon v. Gloss (category United States Eighteenth Amendment case law)
    in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that Congress, when proposing a constitutional amendment under the authority given to it by Article...
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    The Corwin Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that has never been adopted, but owing to the absence of a ratification...
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  • Lambert v. Yellowley (category United States Eighteenth Amendment case law)
    upholding the Prohibition Act's limitations as a necessary and proper implementation of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Eighteenth...
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    ("Rhode Island") to accede to the United States Constitution. It was a controversial process which occurred only after the United States threatened a trade...
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  • natural-born citizen of the United States is one of the eligibility requirements established in the United States Constitution for holding the office of president...
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  • World War II. Shortly after passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibiting the sale of alcohol nationwide, a joke about...
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