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The Eighteenth Amendment ( Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919. The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment on ...
The first ten amendments were adopted and ratified simultaneously and are known collectively as the Bill of Rights. The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are collectively known as the Reconstruction Amendments. Six amendments adopted by Congress and sent to the states have not been ratified by the required number of states.
On February 7, Congress passed a resolution affirming that the Presidential signature was unnecessary. [67] The Thirteenth Amendment is the only ratified amendment signed by a President, although James Buchanan had signed the Corwin Amendment that the 36th Congress had adopted and sent to the states in March 1861. [68] [69]
On May 20, 1992, under the authority recognized in Coleman, and in keeping with the precedent established by the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, each house of the 102nd Congress passed its own version of a concurrent resolution agreeing that the amendment was validly ratified, despite the more than 202 years the task took. The Senate ...
Paul charged that the amendment passed only because "it at last became more expedient for those in control of the Government to aid suffrage than to oppose it". [63] Sewing stars on a suffrage flag. Congress proposed the Nineteenth Amendment on June 4, 1919, and the following states ratified the amendment. [64] [65]
[207] [208] At the urging of President Ulysses S. Grant, in 1872 Congress passed the Amnesty Act, which removed the disqualification from all but the most senior Confederates. [213] In 1898, as a "gesture of national unity" [208] during the Spanish–American War, Congress passed another law broadening the amnesty.
The Twelfth Amendment ( Amendment XII) to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the president and vice president. It replaced the procedure in Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, under which the Electoral College originally functioned. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 9, 1803, and was ratified by the ...
This language was greatly condensed by Congress, and passed the House and Senate with almost no recorded debate, complicating future discussion of the Amendment's intent. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Congress approved and submitted to the states for their ratification twelve articles of amendment on September 25, 1789.