vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. AMENDMENT 18.° SECTION 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. SEC. 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. SEC. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. 9 The eighteenth amendment was submitted to the legislatures of the several States, there being then 48 States, by a resolution of Congress passed on 17th day of December, 1917, at the second session of the Sixty-fifth Congress, and was ratified, according to a proclamation of the Acting Secretary of State dated Jan. 29, 1919, by the legislatures of the following States: Mississippi, Jan. 8, 1918; Virginia, Jan. 11, 1918; Kentucky, Jan. 16, 1918; North Dakota, Jan. 28, 1918; South Carolina, Feb. 12, 1918; Montana, Feb. 20, 1918; Texas, Mar. 4, 1918; Maryland, Mar. 12, 1918; South Dakota, Mar. 22, 1918; Delaware, Mar. 26, 1918; Massachusetts, Apr. 2, 1918; Arizona, May 23, 1918; Georgia, July 2, 1918; Louisiana, Aug. 9, 1918; Florida, Dec. 3, 1918; Michigan, Jan. 2, 1919; Oklahoma, Jan. 7, 1919; Ohio, Jan. 7, 1919; Idaho, Jan. 8, 1919; Maine, Jan. 8, 1919; West Virginia, Jan. 9, 1919; Washington, Jan. 13, 1919; California, Jan. 13, 1919; Illinois, Jan. 14, 1919; Indiana, Jan. 14, 1919; Kansas, Jan. 14, 1919; Tennessee, Jan. 14, 1919; Arkansas, Jan. 14, 1919; New Hampshire, Jan. 15, 1919; Colorado, Jan. 15, 1919; Alabama, Jan. 15, 1919; Oregon, Jan. 15, 1919; Nebraska, Jan. 16, 1919; North Carolina, Jan. 16, 1919; Utah, Jan. 16, 1919; Minnesota, Jan. 17, 1919; Wyoming, Jan. 17, 1919; Wisconsin, Jan. 17, 1919; Missouri, Jan. 17, 1919; Nevada, Jan. 17, 1919; New Mexico, Jan. 22, 1919; Iowa, Jan. 27, 1919; Vermont, Jan. 29, 1919; New York, Jan. 29, 1919; Pennsylvania, Feb. 26, 1919. AMENDMENT 19.10 The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. "The nineteenth amendment was submitted to the legislatures of the several States, there being then 48 States, by a resolution of Congress passed on 5th day of June, 1919, at the first session of the Sixty-sixth Congress, and was ratified, according to a proclamation of the Secretary of State dated Aug. 26, 1920, by the legislatures of the following States: Illinois, June 10, 1919; Michigan, June 10, 1919; Wisconsin, June 11, 1919; Ohio, June 16, 1919; Kansas, June 16, 1919; New York, June 16, 1919; Massachusetts, June 25, 1919; Pennsylvania, June 27, 1919; Texas, June 28, 1919; Iowa, July 2, 1919; Missouri, July 3, 1919; Arkansas, July 28, 1919; Nebraska, Aug. 2, 1919; Montana, Aug. 2, 1919; Minnesota, Sept. 8, 1919; New Hampshire, Sept. 10, 1919; Utah, Oct. 2, 1919; California, Nov. 1, 1919; Maine, Nov. 5, 1919; South Dakota, Dec. 4, 1919; North Dakota, Dec. 5, 1919; Colorado, Dec. 15, 1919; Rhode Island, Jan. 6, 1920; Oregon, Jan. 13, 1920; Indiana, Jan. 16, 1920; Kentucky, Jan. 19, 1920; Wyoming, Jan. 27, 1920; Nevada, Feb. 7, 1920; Idaho, Feb. 11, 1920; Arizona, Feb. 12, 1920; New Jersey, Feb. 17, 1920; New Mexico, Feb. 21, 1920; Okla. homa, Feb. 28, 1920; West Virginia, Mar. 13, 1920; Washington, Mar. 22, 1920; Tennessee, Aug. 24, 1920; Connecticut, Sept. 14, 1920; Vermont, Feb. 8, 1921. The States of Alabama, Virginia, and Maryland rejected this amendment. |