November 1880
Kansas, United States
A major state constitutional precedent demonstrating that prohibition had developed through state action decades before the federal Eighteenth Amendment.
The Kansas Historical Society gives the month and year but not the calendar day of ratification. November 1 is a synthetic sorting anchor only; display as November 1880. Enforcement was uneven and is not implied by legal adoption.
Kansas voters ratified a state constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, effective May 1, 1881.
Evidence anchor
Kansas Historical Society, “Prohibition,” fully reviewed and preserved in the Sources database.
Drafting guardrail
State the legal milestone separately from the effectiveness or consistency of enforcement. The database date is a sorting anchor because the source supplies only November 1880.