Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-17

become President. If a President shall
not have been chosen before the time
fixed for the beginning of his term, OF
If the President elect shall have failed
to qualify, then the Vice President
elect shall act as President until q
President shall have qualified; and the
Congress may by law provide for the
case wherein neither President elect
nor Vice President elect shall have
qualified, declaring who shall then act
as President, or the manner in which
one who is to act shall be selected, and
such person shall act accordingly un-
til President or Vice President shall
have qualified.
Section q. The Congress may by law
provide for the case of the death of
any of the persons from whom the
House of Representative may choose
a President whenever the right of
choice shall have devolved upon them,
and for the case of the death of any
Of the persons from whom the Senate
may choose a Vice President whenever
the right of choice shall have devolved
upon them.
Section S. Sections 1 and 2 shall
take effect on the 18th day Of October
following the ratification Of this ar
ticle.
Section 6. This article shall be mop
eratiye unless it shall have been rati-
fed as an amendment to the COnstitu-
ton by the legislatures of three-fourths
of the several States within seven
years from the date of its submission.
1.-THE text followed above Is that Of the
Literal Print edition issued by the
Department of State in Washington,
D. c., 1881
ARTICLE XXI.
Section 1. The eighteenth article of
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States is hereby repealed.
Section 2. The transportation or i'm
portation into any State, Territory, or
Possession of the United States for de-
livery or use therein of intoxicating
liquors. in violation of the laws there
of, is hereby prohibited.
Section 8. This article shall be inop-
erative unless 1t shall have been rati-
fed as an amendment to the COnstf-
tuition by conventions in the several
States, as provided in the Constitution,
within seven years from the date of
the submission hereof to the States
by the Congress.
Amendments.-In the Constitution
as originally adopted, slight provision
was made for the guaranty to the indi-
vidual of a sphere of liberty not to be
encroached upon by the Federal Gov
eminent. To remedy this defect, the
first Congress after the adoption of
the Constitution passed and submitted
to the States for ratification series
of ten Amendments, which were duly
ratified and declared In force on Dec.
Is, 1871.
The Eleventh Amendment was passed
In 1893, and declared in force Jan. 8,
1898.
The Twelfth Amendment was added
in 1903, and from then until the time
of the Civil War no others were
adopted.
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and FIJI
teenth Amendments were embodied In
1865, 1868 and 1870. respectively, as
part of the Governments Reconstruc-
ton policy, securing to the liberated
slaves the benefits Of citizenship.
The Sixteenth Uncome Taxi and
Seventeenth ELECTION of Senators)
Amendments were adopted on Feb. %
and May 81, 1913, respectively.
The Eighteenth (Prohibition) Amend
ment came into force on Jan. 16, 1920.
The Nineteenth (Woman Suffrage)
Amendment was adopted on Aug. %,
1920.
The Twentieth elaine Duck")
Amendment: Ratification formally an
nounced Feb. 6, 1893.
The Twenty-first prohibition Re-
peaD Amendment was adopted Dec. 8,
1888.
A proposed Child Labor Amendment,
passed by both Houses of Congress In
1924, had (by July, 1881 been re-
jected by "a States and ratified by Is.
History.-The first official draft of a
plan for the formation Of the Federal
Government was submitted to the
States for ratification in 1777, under
the title Articles of Confederation
The ratification of every State was re-
quired to put the government into
effect, and in 1871 this had been Sc
cured The government thus estab-
lished consisted of a legislative de-
partment only. Practically the sole
powers of the government were the
carrying ON Of foreign relations and
the determining of peace and war.
The government proved to have in
sufficient power even to enforce upon
the States treaty obligations with for
eign governments.
The Constitution, as finally drafted,
represented three great compromises :
% between a national party and q