[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
[104th Congress]
[House Document 103-342]
[The United States Constitution]
[Pages 99-100]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 

                         AMENDMENT XVIII.a


              [See Amendment XXI, repealing this Amendment]


[[Page 100]]
ing liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation 
thereof from the United States and all territories subject to the 
jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.


Sec. 239. Prohibition of intoxicating 
liquors.

  Section 1.  [After one year from the ratification of this article the 
manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicat


  a The 18th amendment to the Constitution of the United States was 
proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 65th Congress 
on December 18, 1917, and was declared in a proclamation by the 
Secretary of State dated January 29, 1919, to have been ratified by the 
legislatures of thirty-six of the forty-eight States. The dates of these 
ratifications were: Mississippi, January 8, 1918; Virginia, January 11, 
1918; Kentucky, January 14, 1918; North Dakota, January 25, 1918; South 
Carolina, January 29, 1918; Maryland, February 13, 1918; Montana, 
February 19, 1918; Texas, March 4, 1918; Delaware, March 18, 1918; South 
Dakota, March 20, 1918; Massachusetts, April 2, 1918; Arizona, May 24, 
1918; Georgia, June 26, 1918; Louisiana, August 3, 1918; Florida, 
December 3, 1918; Michigan, January 2, 1919; Ohio, January 7, 1919; 
Oklahoma, January 7, 1919; Idaho, January 8, 1919; Maine, January 8, 
1919; West Virginia, January 9, 1919; California, January 13, 1919; 
Tennessee, January 13, 1919; Washington, January 13, 1919; Arkansas, 
January 14, 1919; Kansas, January 14, 1919; Alabama, January 15, 1919; 
Colorado, January 15, 1919; Iowa, January 15, 1919; New Hampshire, 
January 15, 1919; Oregon, January 15, 1919; Nebraska, January 16, 1919; 
North Carolina, January 16, 1919; Utah, January 16, 1919; Missouri, 
January 16, 1919; Wyoming, January 16, 1919. Ratification was completed 
on January 16, 1919. The amendment was subsequently ratified by 
Minnesota, January 17, 1919; Wisconsin, January 17, 1919; New Mexico, 
January 20, 1919; Nevada, January 21, 1919; New York, January 29, 1919; 
Vermont, January 29, 1919; Pennsylvania, February 25, 1919; Connecticut, 
May 6, 1919; and New Jersey, March 9, 1922. Rhode Island rejected the 
amendment.
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  Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent 
power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.






  Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been 
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the 
several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from 
the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.]