From 7868b033b9251a802bbd302eb49c25dc0cd3e169 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Senate Date: Wed, 16 Jan 1991 15:00:00 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Amendment XVII Author: Senate Date: Jan 16 15:00:00 1919 -0400 --- Constitution.md | 7 +++++++ amendments.md | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/Constitution.md b/Constitution.md index 844f785..4b847dd 100644 --- a/Constitution.md +++ b/Constitution.md @@ -580,3 +580,10 @@ done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names, + +## Article. VIII. + +**Section 1.** The manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors +within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the +United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for +beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. diff --git a/amendments.md b/amendments.md index 8e2e0e3..4a13ecc 100644 --- a/amendments.md +++ b/amendments.md @@ -50,3 +50,11 @@ The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each Stat When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. + +## Amendment XVIII. + +**Section 1.** After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. + +**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.