Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: State Convention Records and Laws

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Brown, 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 It was repealed in 1933 with the passage of the Twenty-First amendment.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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SOUTH CAROLINA
375
TENNESSEE
379
VERMONT
386
VIRGINIA
434
WASHINGTON
450
WEST VIRGINIA
479
WISCONSIN
491
WYOMING
497

FLORIDA
68
PAGE
90
THE LAWScontinued
91
IDAHO
95
ILLINOIS
108
INDIANA
123
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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Page 48 - The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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.

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