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)
“During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I ... [urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enacting that all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner’s jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)