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Article
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Can Ratification of an Amendment to the Constitution Be Made to Depend on a Referendum?, 29 Yale Law Journal 821 (1920)
Abstract
The Supreme Court of the United States will soon have to construe Article V of the federal Constitution, prescribing the method of adopting amendments to that instrument. First it will have to clear up doubt as to when the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted. The Ohio legislature ratified it, and then on referendum it was disapproved by the electors of Ohio. The Secretary of State of the United States proclaimed the Amendment when Ohio ratified it. If the referendum defeated the ratification by Ohio, then the date of its going into effect is postponed until some state acting thereafter ratified it. This date is important by reference to it in criminal and other statutes.
Date of Authorship for this Version
1920
Recommended Citation
Taft, William Howard, "Can Ratification of an Amendment to the Constitution Be Made to Depend on a Referendum?" (1920). Faculty Scholarship Series. 3935.
https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/3935