Dillon v. Gloss
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The case is stated in the opinion. The Eighteenth Amendment is. invalid because of the extra-constitutional, provision of the. third section. Congress has no power to limit the time of deliberation or otherwise control what the legislatures of the States shall do in their deliberation. Any attempt to limit voids the proposal.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The case is stated in the opinion. The Eighteenth Amendment is. invalid because of the extra-constitutional, provision of the. third section. Congress has no power to limit the time of deliberation or otherwise control what the legislatures of the States shall do in their deliberation. Any attempt to limit voids the proposal. The legislative history of the Amendment, shows that without § 3 the proposal would not have passed the Senaté. Cong. Rec., 65th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 5648-5666; Cong. Rec., 65th…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
delivered^ the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from ah order denying a petition for a writ of hateas corpus. 262 Fed. Rep. 563. The petitioner was in custody under § 26 of Title II of the National Prohibition Act, c. 85, 41 Stat. 305, on a charge of transporting intoxicating liquor in violation of § 3 of thaj: title, and by his petition sought to be discharged' on several grounds, all but two of which were abandoned after the decision in National Prohibition Cases, 253 U. S. 350.. The remaining grounds are, first, that the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, to enforce which…
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