Separates House passage, congressional submission, constitutional ratification, and later certification.
National Archives educational chronology following the amendment’s organizational background.
“The House of Representatives soon thereafter passed a modified version of the resolution on December 17, after which it was issued to the states for ratification a day later. … After Nebraska became the thirty-sixth state to approve it, the new amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919. Thirteen days later, Secretary of State Frank L. Polk announced that the Eighteenth Amendment was officially incorporated into the Constitution.”
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