National Prohibition Cases
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL, AND APPEALS PROM THE DISTRICT COURTS OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE DISTRICT OP MASSACHUSETTS, . THE WESTERN DISTRICT. OP KENTUCKY, THE DISTRICT , OP NEW JERSEY, THE EASTERN'DISTRICT OP WISCONSIN, ' AND THE EASTERN DISTRICT OP MISSOURI. The seven cases here given one name for convenient reference involved the validity of the Eighteenth Amendment and of certain general features of the National Prohibition Act designed for its enforcement.
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ORIGINAL, AND APPEALS PROM THE DISTRICT COURTS OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE DISTRICT OP MASSACHUSETTS, . THE WESTERN DISTRICT. OP KENTUCKY, THE DISTRICT , OP NEW JERSEY, THE EASTERN'DISTRICT OP WISCONSIN, ' AND THE EASTERN DISTRICT OP MISSOURI. The seven cases here given one name for convenient reference involved the validity of the Eighteenth Amendment and of certain general features of the National Prohibition Act designed for its enforcement. They were as follows: No. 29, Original. State of Rhode Island v. A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General, and Daniel C. Roper, Commis-. sioner of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
announced the conclusions of the court.
Power to amend the Constitution was reserved by Article V, which reads:
“The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legisla*385tures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three' fourths thereof, as the one or the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Jacob Ruppert v. CaffeySupreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. KansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
3Cited by192 opinions
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Schneiderman v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- United States v. LanzaSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- United States v. SpragueSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- United States v. ConstantineSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
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