Talk:Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Link to U.S. prohibition article

The article presently links in the first paragraph to a general article on prohibition policies (around the globe). Since the 18th Amendment established prohibition in the United States, though, wouldn't it be a good idea to add a link to the article specifically on Prohibition in the United States? If no one objects, I'll take a stab at making the change. Kuribosshoe 06:26, 28 March 2007 (UTC)plus, liquor is good.

• It's in the first paragraph. Beefpelican (talk) 20:17, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

stubs

I removed all stubs. This is an article now. Bearian 21:47, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Connecticut's ratification

The Connecticut government's Constitution website incorrectly lists that it Connecticut did not ratify the 18th amendment [1]. However, all other sites, including the GPO ([2]), list that it ratified it on May 6, 1919. I'm going to stick with the majority of sites and the Federal government's Constitution site, and keep the fact that it ratified the amendment. --CapitalR 16:40, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Connecticut's ratification (correction)

The Connecticut General Assembly website ([3])is correct. Connecticut did not ratify the 18th amendment. Please check the online United States Code Service (Lexis). Lexis has corrected the error. The 2006 edition of the official U.S. Code (to be published in 2008) will also make the change. The USCA will follow the official code and make the change when the 2006 edition is published.

Update: The GPO has uploaded the pdf files for the 2006 edition of the U.S. Code. Please see this link, http://uscode.house.gov/pdf/Organic%20Laws/const.pdf#page=10, which confirms that Connecticut did not ratify the 18th amendment. I will not edit the main page because my previous edits correcting the Connecticut error have been reverted. Please make the change to this page so that Connecticut is listed correctly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.58.227.114 (talk) 16:18, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I thought that the following information would be of interest to those that read this page. It was an emailed response by the Connecticut State Library to my question as to whether Connecticut ratified the Eighteenth Amendment:

Senate Joint Resolution 56 of 1919 (the text of which is found in the 1919 CT House Journal on pp. 333-334, but not in the Senate Journal or in our bill archives) proposing ratification of the U.S. amendment by the General Assembly of Connecticut was rejected by the Senate on Feb. 4 and passed by the House on Feb. 11. The House asked for a Committee of Conference to consider it (Feb. 18) and the Senate agreed to the Conference Committee (Feb. 19). On May 6 the Committee of Conference reported that they could not agree, and recommended that “the same” [ie, the inability to agree] be ordered on file in the office of the secretary. The House on the same day accepted this report. So they agreed to disagree, but only the House passed the joint resolution to ratify.

All of which was moot anyway, since the requisite number of states to ratify had been reached in January. On May 9, 1919, the Hartford Courant (p.5) in an article on the final adjournment of the General Assembly for the year said that “Ratification of the national prohibition amendment was denied.”

Nightkey (talk) 02:28, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

What about Illinois?

Where's Illinois? They didn't mention them in the ratification list! —Preceding unsigned comment added by KC109 (talk • contribs) 14:20, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Indiana isn't there either. Zapvet (talk) 15:07, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

The ratification list only includes those states whose legislatures approved the 18th amendment. Not all the states must ratify an amendment. Since the majority had ratified by the deadline (which was unprecedented), no other states were required to ratify. Any further motions passed were merely idealogical and symbolical. --Sid 19:10, 23 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sidnarayanan (talk • contribs)