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This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.he Eighteenth Amendment was the result of decades of effort by the temperance movement in the United States and at the time was generally considered a progressive amendment.
The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans â right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws.he Enforcement Act of 1870 (Formally, An Act to enforce the Right of Citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union, and for other Purposes, 41st Congress, Sess. 2, ch.