16 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF TILE U. S. [Arts. 18-20]

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.

SECTION 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent
power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. '

SECTION 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.

ARTICLE XIX. ¹

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 to¹ enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

ARTICLE XX. ²

SECTION 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end
at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Repre-
sentatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such

to have been ratified by the Legislatures of thirty-six States; the ratifications were
received by the Department of State m the following order, viz: —Virginia, January
11, 1918; Kentucky, January 16, 1918; North Dakota, January 28, 1918; South Caro-
lina, February 12, 1918; Maryland, March 12, 1918; South Dakota, March 22, 1918;
Texas, March 4, 1918; Montana, February 20, 1918; Delaware, March 26, 1918; 'Massa-
chusetts, March 26, 1918; Arizona, May 25, 1918; Georgia, July 2, 1918; Louisiana,
August 9, 1918; Michigan, January 2, 1919; West Virginia, January 9, 1919; Maine,
January 8, 1919; Mississippi, January 13, 1918; Florida, December 3, 1918; Oklahoma,
January 7, 1919; Washington, January 13, 1919; New Hampshire, January 15, 1919;
Nebraska, January 16, 1919; Minnesota, January 17, 1919; Indiana, January 14, 1919;
California, January 13, 1919; Colorado, January 15, 1919; Alabama, January 18, 1919;
Oregon, January 15, 1919; Ohio, January 7, 1919; Illinois, January 14, 1919; Wyoming;
January 17, 1919; Idaho, January 15, 1919; Wisconsin, January 15, 1919; North Caro-
lina, January 16; 1919; Utah, January 18, 1919; and Kansas, January 20, 1919. The
Legislatures of the following States not enumerated in the proclamation of the Secre-
tary of State also ratified this amendment: New Mexico, January 20, 1919; Wisconsin,
January 15, 1919; North Carolina, January 16, 1919; Utah, January 18, 1919; Missouri,
January 17, 1919; Nevada; January 27, 1919, and Pennsylvania, February 26, 1919.

¹ The nineteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed
to the Legislatures of the several States by the Sixty-sixth Congress, and was declared
in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated August 26, 1920, to have been rati-
fied by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States in the following order,
viz: Illinois, June 10, 1919; Michigan, June 10, 1919; Wisconsin, June 11, 1919; Kansas,
June 16, 1919; New York, June 16, 1919; Ohio, '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; Montana, August 2, 1919; Nebraska, August 2,
1919; 'Minnesota, September 8, 1919; New Hampshire, September 10, 1919; Utah, Octo-
ber 2, 1919; California, November 1, 1919; Maine, November 5, 1919; South Dakota,
December 4, 1919; North Dakota, December 5, 1919; Colorado, December 15, 1919;
Rhode Island, January 6, 1920; Oregon, January 13, 1920; Indiana, January 16, 1920;
Kentucky, January 19, 1920; Wyoming, January 27, 1920; Nevada, February 7, 1920;
Idaho, February 11, 1920; Arizona, February 12, 1920; New Jersey, February 17, 1920;
New Mexico, February 21, 1920; Oklahoma, February 28, 1920; West Virginia, March
13, 1920; Washington, March 22, 1920; Tennessee, August 24, 1920; Connecticut, Sep-
tember 14, 1920; and Vermont, February 8, 1921:

² The Twentieth Amendment was proposed by resolution of Congress on March 2,

1932. It was, declared in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated February 6,

1933. to have been ratified by 39 States, which "constitute more than the requisite
three-fourths. " Subsequent records of the Department of State show that the 20th
Amendment was ratified by all of the 48 States before sections 1 and 2 became ef-
fective on October 15, 1933. The other sections of the amendment became effective on
January 23, 1933, when its ratification was consummated by three-fourths of the States.