as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. The Eighteenth Amendment, enacted in 1919, was one of four "Progressive ...

and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. The culmination of nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve, even to ...

First introduced in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements for ratification. But its constitutionality is still an open question.