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Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (366 words) |
 | Amendment XXI (the Twenty-first Amendment) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition. |
| The Twenty-first was passed by the United States Congress on February 20, 1933 and was fully ratified by December 5, 1933. |
| This Amendment is thus far the only case, besides the initial ratification of the original Constitution, in which state conventions, specially selected for the purpose—not state legislatures—ratified the amendment. |
| Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (486 words) |
| The amendment prohibits both the federal government and the states from using a person's sex as a qualification to vote; it was specifically intended to extend suffrage to women. |
| On February 27, 1922, a challenge to the 19th Amendment was rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| Unlike the other voting rights amendments (the 15th, 23rd and 26th), the Congressional power of enforcement clause was kept in the same section as the granting of the right. |
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