enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to...

    The Twenty-first Amendment ending national prohibition also became effective on December 5, 1933. The Acting Secretary of State William Phillips certified the amendment as having been passed by the required three-fourths of the states at 5:49 p.m. EST, just 17 minutes after the passage of the amendment by the Utah convention.

  3. This amendment would have heavily reduced America's ability to be involved in war, requiring a national referendum to confirm any declaration of war. Public support for the amendment was very robust through the 1930s, a period when isolationism was the prevailing mood in the United States. [17] [18] [19]

  4. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_to_the...

    The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.

  5. Andres Duany's six words to a better Vero Beach ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/andres-duanys-six-words-better...

    Andres Duany, an urban planner hired to draw a master plan for Vero Beach's downtown, walks toward 21st Amendment Distillery Feb. 5, 2024, with his dog, Bailey. Duany had just discussed the ...

  6. Disregard for the Constitution? That’s on Us. - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/disregard-constitution-us...

    From the Electoral College to the Senate, reforms to our founding charters are possible without amendments.

  7. Repeal of Prohibition in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_of_Prohibition_in...

    In 1919, the requisite number of state legislatures ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, enabling national prohibition one year later. Many women, notably members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, were pivotal in bringing about national Prohibition in the United States, believing it would protect families, women, and children from the effects of alcohol ...

  8. State ratifying conventions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_ratifying_conventions

    The 21st is also the only constitutional amendment that repealed another one, that being the 18th Amendment, which had been ratified 14 years earlier. As is true for a state legislature when ratifying a proposed federal constitutional amendment, a state ratifying convention may not in any way change a proposed constitutional amendment, but must ...

  9. Three-tier system (alcohol distribution) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-tier_system_(alcohol...

    In 1933 the 18th Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Previously, the Eighteenth Amendment had outlawed alcohol in the US in 1919 and led to Prohibition in 1920.) Section 2 of the Twenty-first Amendment specifies that the power to control alcohol resides with the states, leaving each state to ...