    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 112th Congress]
    [112nd Congress]
    [House Document 111-157]
    [The United States Constitution]
    [Pages 107-108]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                         AMENDMENT XVIII.\9\

    [[Page 108]]

    cating 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.
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    Sec. 239. Prohibition of intoxicating
    liquors.

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

      \9\ See amendment XXI, repealing this amendment. 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 36 of the
    48 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; New Jersey, March 9, 1922.
    Connecticut and 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.]