Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment may refer to:

  • The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which established Prohibition
  • The Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which permitted the state to ratify the Amsterdam Treaty
  • The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which reduced the powers of the President of Pakistan
  • Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment, an episode of the television series The Simpsons

Famous quotes containing the words eighteenth and/or amendment:

    Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.
    Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)

    [Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn’t executions be public?
    Phil Donahue (b. 1935)