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Eighteenth Amendment   /eɪtˈinθ əmˈɛndmənt/   Listen
Eighteenth Amendment

noun
1.
An amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages; repealed in 1932.





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... Eighteenth Amendment, the Constitution of the United States retained the character which properly belongs to the organic law of a great Federal Republic. The matters with which it dealt were of three kinds, and three only—the division of powers as between the Federal and the State governments, ...
— What Prohibition Has Done to America • Fabian Franklin
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... not dissent from the disposition of these causes as ordered by the Court, but confine my concurrence to that. It is impossible now to say with fair certainty what construction should be given to the Eighteenth Amendment. Because of the bewilderment which it creates, a multitude of questions will inevitably arise and demand solution here. In the circumstances, I prefer to remain free to consider these questions when ...
— Our Changing Constitution • Charles Pierson
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... justifying his anticipations. As a consequence of the illness of Tom Montjoy he was offered and accepted what promised to be for the time being a lucrative position as Tom Montjoy's substitute on the back end of one of Fowler & Givens' ice wagons. The Eighteenth Amendment was not as yet an accomplished fact, though the dread menace of it hung over that commonwealth which had within its confines the largest total number of distilleries and bonded warehouses to be found in any state of this union. Observing no hope of legislative relief, ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
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Words linked to "Eighteenth Amendment" :   amendment, United States Constitution, constitution, jurisprudence, Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution, law, US Constitution


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