State Ex Rel. Donnelly v. Myers

By the Court.

Article V of the Constitution of the United States provides for the proposal of amendments by the Congress, which shall become valid as parts of the Constitution itself “when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, or by Conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress.”

By the requisite majority, both houses of the Seventy-Second Congress passed a joint resolution proposing as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States an article providing for the repeal of the Eighteenth…