Eighteenth Amendment
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Three Republican Presidents—Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Hoover—held office during Prohibition, and all of them were willing, if not eager, to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015
But in 1919, exactly half a century after the Party’s founding, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, banning “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.”
From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015
As the Twenty-First Amendment, which would repeal the Eighteenth Amendment establishing Prohibition, moved towards ratification, this law authorized the manufacture of 3.2 percent beer and levied a tax on it.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Congress ratified the Eighteenth Amendment in January 1919, with provisions to take effect one year later.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
On January 6, Nebraska became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment, making it illegal to manufacture, sell, or transport liquor.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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