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Vocabulary To ratify — to confirm or pass something, such as an amendment

Vocabulary To ratify — to confirm or pass something, such as an amendment Intoxicating liquors — alcohol Article — a section or item in a written document. Until enough states ratified this amendment, it was known as an article. The 18 th Amendment in the United States Constitution

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Vocabulary To ratify — to confirm or pass something, such as an amendment

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  1. Vocabulary To ratify— to confirm or pass something, such as an amendment Intoxicating liquors— alcohol Article— a section or item in a written document. Until enough states ratified this amendment, it was known as an article.

  2. The 18th Amendment in the United States Constitution Context: The US Senate passed the 18th Amendment on December 18,1917. It was ratified on January 16, 1919, after 36 states approved it. The18th Amendment, and the enforcement laws accompanying it, establishedprohibition of alcohol in the United States. Severalstates already hadProhibition laws before this amendment. It was eventually repealed by the21st Amendment on December 5, 1933. It is the onlyamendment that hasever been completely repealed.

  3. Eighteenth Amendment: Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article themanufacture, sale, transportation, importation or exportation ofintoxicating liquors in the United States and all its territory is herebyprohibited. Section 2. The Congress and the States shall both have power toenforce this article by appropriate legislation. Section 3. This article shall have no power unless it shall have beenratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of theStates, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from thedate of the submission to the States by the Congress.

  4. What is your first reaction to the 18thamendment? 2. Do you think this amendment could be passed today? Why or why not? 3. Why do you think some Americans in 1918 might have wanted this amendment?

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