who pushed for the 18th amendment?
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Answer: The three main groups pushing for Prohibition were the "Woman's Christian Temperance Union", "Anti-Saloon League" and the "Prohibition Party".
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On June 8, 1789, James Madison addressed the House of Representatives and introduced a proposed Bill of Rights to the Constitution. More than three months later, Congress would finally agree on a final list of Rights to present to the states.
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The phrase separation of church and state is generally traced to a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to the Danbury Baptists, in which he referred to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as creating a "wall of separation" between church and state.
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The Bill of Rights was strongly influenced by the Virginia Declaration of Rights, written by George Mason. ... Federalists argued that the Constitution did not need a bill of rights, because the people and the states kept any powers not given to the federal government.
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James Madison, America's fourth President (1809-1817), made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing The Federalist Papers, along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. In later years, he was referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.”
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Prohibition is a law prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages. Some advantages of the 18th amendment is that there were less arrests for drunkeness, also it lowered the number of alcohol related deaths. One more advantage is that there were fewer workers spending there paychecks less on alcohol beverages.
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The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. It was passed by Congress in 1909 in response to the 1895 Supreme Court case of Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
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Congress appoints Committee of Five to draft the Declaration of Independence. On June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress selects Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert R.
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On September 17, 1787, 39 of the 55 delegates signed the new document, with many of those who refused to sign objecting to the lack of a bill of rights. At least one delegate refused to sign because the Constitution codified and protected slavery and the slave trade.
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Benjamin Franklin had drawn up a plan for “Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.” While some delegates, such as Thomas Jefferson, supported Franklin's proposal, many others were strongly opposed.
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Plans to Revise the Articles of Confederation Rufus King (1755–1827), a member of the Confederation Congress and a delegate to the Federal Constitution Convention of 1787, expressed concern for a 1785 Massachusetts legislative call for a national convention to revise the Articles of Confederation.
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On July 28, 1868, the 14th amendment was declared, in a certificate of the Secretary of State, ratified by the necessary 28 of the 37 States, and became part of the supreme law of the land. Congressman John A.
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In 1790 Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton pushed for the federal government to take over that debt. He also suggested an excise tax on whiskey to prevent further financial difficulty. President George Washington was opposed to Hamilton's suggestion of a whiskey tax.
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Any amendment to the Constitution must first be passed by a majority in each of the two legislative houses. ... Alternatively, a two-thirds vote of both Virginia houses may call for the creation of a constitutional convention.
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