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This article proposes the amendment of the U.S. Constitution to ban the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States, what is commonly known as Prohibition. On the first page the official seal of the Department of State is visible. After the article was ratified in 1919, it became the 18th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. National prohibition of alcoholic beverages did not begin for another year, on January 17, 1920, as set forth in Section 1 of this resolution.
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1915-1919: Capper)
Date: December 28, 1917
Item Number: 309089
Call Number: Governor's Office, Governor Arthur Capper, Correspondence Files, Numerical File Box 14
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 309089
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Capper, Arthur
Date - 1910s - 1917
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Congress
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Constitution
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Prohibition and temperance
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Capper, Arthur
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Resolution
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Correspondence
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Resolution
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