Prohibition in the United States December 18, 1918. Upon being approved by a 36th state on January 16, 1919, the amendment was ratified as a part of the Constitution. By the terms of the amendment, the country went dry one year later, on January 17, 1920. On October 28, 1919, Congress passed the Volstead Act, the popular name for the National Prohibition Act, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. The act established the legal definition of intoxicating liquors as well as penalties for producing them. Although the Volstead Act prohibited the sale of alcohol, the federal government lacked resources to enforce it. Prohibition was successful in
Amendment to the Constitution of Iraq Front has asked that the de-Baathification provisions be reworded to ""be fair to those that have suffered under this article"". The Iraq Study Group of senior American politicians recommended that the constitution be amended as follows: The Kurdistani Alliance submitted a working paper in April 2007 with the following proposed changes: The Iraqi Accord Front was reported in July 2007 of seeking the following changes: Amendment to the Constitution of Iraq The government of Iraq has established a committee to consider a proposed amendment to the Constitution of Iraq. The current Constitution of Iraq was drafted by a committee of