The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-05-16

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and the joint resolution submitting to the states the
Eighteenth Amendment thus finally adopted by Con-
gress 1t then submitted the Legislatures of the
several states By January TO- 1919 the Legislatures of
the necessary threeourhs of the had ratified the
amendment. 1t then proclaimed by the Secretary
of State and became integral part of the Constitution
to take effect year thereafter.
Question: What states ratified the Eighteenth
Amendment
Answer: Forty-six of the forty-eight states all
cept Rhode Island and Connecticut ratified the amend
ment.
Question: Is it possible to have referendum vote
amendments the Constitution of the United States?
Answer: Proposed amendments to the Constitution
of the United States be ratified only in the
provided in Article V of the Constitution Referendum
provisions of State Constitutions have application
amendments the Constitution OF the United States
This conclusvely settled by the decisions of the
United States Supreme Court.
Question: By what vote the Eighteenth Amend
ment the Constitution submitted?
Answer: A proposed amendment to the Constitution
of the United States is required to receive twothrds
vote in both houses of Congress. The twothrds vote
two-thrds of the membership present and vo-
ing, providing of course there is quorum. The Eight
zenith Amendment to the Constitution adopted by
the House of Representatives by vote of 282 to 1885,
and in the Senate by vote of 65 to 20, than the
required two-thrds majority It's validity sustained
by the Supreme Court of the United States in the
of Rhode Island VS.. Palmer 253 u S. $780,
Question: What unusual condition imposed
upon the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment?
Answer: 1t had to be ratified in seven years be-
come effective This the first amendment to the
Constitution to contain time limit.
Question: Within what time the Eighteenth
Amendment ratified?
Answer: Twelve months and twenty-nne days
Question:: What the proportionate vote for and
against the Eighteenth Amendment in the Legislatures
of the forty-six states which ratified it?
Answer: The total vote in the lower houses of the
Legislatures of the ratifying the Eighteenth
Amendment 1882 votes for, to 035 against ratih-
cation, 785 per affirmative. The total vote in
the Senaes of the respective Legislatures 1910 for
to PSI against ratification, 846 per cent affirmative
Question: What proportion of the population of the
United States resides in the which ratified the
Eighteenth Amendment?
Answer: 982 per cent Only Is per cent reside in
the two states of Rhode Island and Connecticut which
have not ratified.
Question: What obligation rests upon the states and
the Federal Government to enforce the Eighteenth
Amendment?
Answer: The Eighteenth Amendment provides that
Congress and the several states shall have
power enforce it by appropriate legislation Chief
Justice White said in Rhode Island VS. Palmer: :"
the prohibition did not define the Intoxicating bever
ages which it prohibited in the absence of anything to
the contrary clearly from the very facts of its adop
ton cast upon Congress the duty only of defining the
prohibited beverages, but also of enacng such regua
tons and sanctions essential to make them
operative when defined