The states understood the meaning as well. Immediately after the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, states enacted strong price-control measures, “the very type of statute that this ...

United States v. Sprague (1931). Of the ratified amendments, all but the Twenty-first Amendment, which was ratified by state conventions, have been ratified by state legislatures. In Hawke v.

It was 1:30 p. m. by the gold watch he pulled out of his vest pocket and laid on his paper-cluttered desk when Texas’ Senator Morris Sheppard rose in the Senate chamber one day last week.