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NARA | The National Archives Experience (1406 words) |
 | The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. |
 | This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. |
 | This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress. |
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Eighteenth Amendment (651 words) |
 | At the gathering's conclusion, the League's superintendent, Purley Baker, presented an amendment to the United States Congress and to the House of Representatives. |
 | This amendment would be the basis for the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
 | In Ohio, Prohibition opponents actually revoked the state's approval of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919 in a statewide referendum. |