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单词 Eighteenth Amendment
例句 Eighteenth Amendment
On January 6, Nebraska became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment, making it illegal to manufacture, sell, or transport liquor. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Few laws or acts of Congress have ever been so unpopular with so many people as the Eighteenth Amendment. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
To enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, the Volstead Act—named for the congressman who introduced it—was passed on October 28, 1919. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
The bells were actually tolling in recognition of Nebraska’s ratifying the Eighteenth Amendment. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
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. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z
In 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment outlawed the making, selling, or shipping of alcohol anywhere in the United States. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
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.” Prohibition and the Penal State 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z
He had heard that Greenwich Village, the untrammeled, laughs openly in the teeth of the Eighteenth Amendment. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z
The Clique Club was a post-Prohibition institution of New York, run in direct, more or less open, and famously successful defiance of the Eighteenth Amendment. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z
Shortly thereafter, Congress passed the Volstead Act, translating the Eighteenth Amendment into an enforceable ban on the consumption of alcoholic beverages, and regulating the scientific and industrial uses of alcohol. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z
A young woman recited or declaimed the imperishable Eighteenth Amendment in an Evanston church. The So-called Human Race
Many supporters of the Eighteenth Amendment also supported, a year later, the Nineteenth Amendment, an equally controversial measure, which established women’s right to vote. Prohibition and the Penal State 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z
The other authorized and requested the Governor to call on the national government, in behalf of the State of Maryland, to "have the so-called Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act declared null and void." The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI
In the past it has been chiefly a reform organization and its persistent agitation was a large factor in the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment to the federal constitution making prohibition national. The Farmer and His Community
The Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting alcohol, and the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote, received their final impetus due to the war effort. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z
When the Eighteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution was adopted—the prohibition amendment—he watched developments. The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards
The Eighteenth Amendment passed easily in the Senate and the House, and was soon approved by every state except Rhode Island. Prohibition and the Penal State 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z
"You are raving," declared the defender of the Eighteenth Amendment. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers
The Eighteenth Amendment being of the latter character, the ratification by State legislatures, so the argument ran, was invalid. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
Their political pressure culminated in the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z
One of the gravest indictments against the Eighteenth Amendment is that it has struck a deadly blow at the heart of our Federal system, the principle of local self-government. What Prohibition Has Done to America
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. Prohibition and the Penal State 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z
Prior to the attempted enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment potable and vatted mixtures had but small lure for my palate, or my stomach, or my temperament. One Third Off
Mrs. Culpeper gazed at the print as disapprovingly as if it were an open violation of the Eighteenth Amendment. One Man in His Time
Congress ratified the Eighteenth Amendment in January 1919, with provisions to take effect one year later. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z
But the Eighteenth Amendment says: No mere majority, no mere legislative procedure, shall be competent to restore to the people the liberty that is hereby taken away from them. What Prohibition Has Done to America
In 1932, Hoover, the reluctant Prohibitionist, was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, a reluctant anti-Prohibitionist; a year later, the country repealed the Eighteenth Amendment. Prohibition and the Penal State 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z
It is impossible now to say with fair certainty what construction should be given to the Eighteenth Amendment. Our Changing Constitution
Though they were law-abiding persons to the core, the bitterness of the Eighteenth Amendment had not penetrated to the subterranean darkness where Mr. Berkeley's treasures were stored. One Man in His Time
Southern members of Congress urged the submission of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, forbidding manufacture or sale of intoxicants in the nation. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution
Thus, quite apart from all questions as to the merits of Prohibition in itself, the Eighteenth Amendment is a Constitutional monstrosity. What Prohibition Has Done to America
In fact, we have accorded to the Eighteenth Amendment almost exactly the status then reserved for Omnipotence. The Jewel Merchants A Comedy in One Act
This would put back of the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment the public sentiment always necessary to the execution of laws. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
He offers it to you as Powhatan used to take his Bourbon in the good old days before the Eighteenth Amendment—straight and strong. One Man in His Time
The Eighteenth Amendment may yet live to wish it was dead. Nonsenseorship
And it is something more than an atrocity; the Eighteenth Amendment is not only a perversion but also a degradation of the Constitution. What Prohibition Has Done to America
In 1919 an Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from, the United States. Problems in American Democracy
One of the things for which the Wilson Administration was held to "strict accountability" was the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, establishing nation-wide prohibition. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
That phenomenon, by the way, had nothing to do with the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment, it merely explained why farmers went to bed early—they couldn't afford to sit up, so Buddy decided. Flowing Gold
When the Eighteenth Amendment says it must not drink hard liquors, its inner heart's desire is to drink them, even beyond its normal, and usual capacity. Nonsenseorship
The cardinal grievance against which the unprecedented contempt for law among high-minded and law-abiding people is directed is not the Volstead act but the Eighteenth Amendment. What Prohibition Has Done to America
It is necessary to tell you," he said, "that the Corporation was founded a number of years ago, long before the events of the fatal year 1919 and the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. In the Sweet Dry and Dry
Abstemious as a rule, there were moments when Archie found the Eighteenth Amendment somewhat trying. Indiscretions of Archie
They had been dining, and the Eighteenth Amendment had not been dreamed of. My Memories of Eighty Years
The Eighteenth Amendment is here and here, thank God, to stay! Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises
For, whenever an attempt is made to bring about a substantial change in the Prohibition law, the objection is immediately made that such a change would necessarily amount to a nullification of the Eighteenth Amendment. What Prohibition Has Done to America
There would have been nothing unconstitutional in a failure of Congress to pass any act enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment. What Prohibition Has Done to America
I do not say that I favor this procedure; for it would certainly not be an honest fulfilment of the requirements of the Eighteenth Amendment. What Prohibition Has Done to America
The right means, and the only entirely satisfactory means, of escape from it is through the undoing of the error which brought it about--that is, through the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. What Prohibition Has Done to America
And I, for one, am proud to have been a member of that legislative body which passed so truly God-bidden and democratic an act as the Eighteenth Amendment. Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises
I do not say that the Eighteenth Amendment falls into this category. What Prohibition Has Done to America
It would give the Federal Government a power which I think it would be far more wholesome to reserve to the States; but it would get rid of the worst part of the Eighteenth Amendment. What Prohibition Has Done to America
So far from settling the matter once for all, the Eighteenth Amendment has been a frightful breeder of unsettlement and contention, which bids fair to continue indefinitely. What Prohibition Has Done to America
The right solution--a solution incomparably better than this which I have suggested on account of its apparently better chance of acceptance--is the outright repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. What Prohibition Has Done to America
There is one and only one thing that could justify such a violation of liberty and of the cardinal principles of rational government as is embodied in the Eighteenth Amendment. What Prohibition Has Done to America
Unquestionably, advantage was taken of this situation, there can be little doubt that the Eighteenth Amendment would have had much harder sledding at a normal time. What Prohibition Has Done to America
Until the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment, the Constitution of the United States retained the character which properly belongs to the organic law of a great Federal Republic. What Prohibition Has Done to America
The Eighteenth Amendment, if it were not odious as a perversion of the power of the Constitution, would be contemptible as an offense against its dignity. What Prohibition Has Done to America
But from every standpoint the way in which the Eighteenth Amendment was actually put through Congress and the Legislatures has a great deal to do with the case. What Prohibition Has Done to America
Evidently, it would have been far more difficult to get the Eighteenth Amendment into the Constitution if the two-thirds vote of Congress had been the sole requirement for its adoption. What Prohibition Has Done to America
All these things must weigh in our judgment of the moral weight to be attached to the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment; but there is another aspect of that adoption which is more important. What Prohibition Has Done to America
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