Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse: Prepared for use of Members of the FamilyNourse, Charles Clinton
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Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse: Prepared for use of Members of the Family
Nourse, Charles Clinton
Iowa -- Politics and government; Lawyers -- Iowa -- Biography; Nourse, Charles Clinton, 1829-
Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in
either house of the general assembly; and if the same shall be
agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two
houses, such proposed amendment shall be entered on their journals,
with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the
legislature to be chosen at the next general election, and shall be
published, as provided by law, for three months previous to the
time of making such choice; and if, in the general assembly so next
chosen as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be
agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each house,
then it shall be the duty of the general assembly to submit such
proposed amendment to the people in such manner, and at such time
as the general assembly shall provide; and if the people shall
approve and ratify such amendment or amendments by a majority of
the electors qualified to vote for members of the general assembly,
voting thereon, such amendment or amendments shall become a part of
the constitution of this state.
In pursuance of the provisions of this constitution the eighteenth
general assembly of the state of Iowa, to-wit, in the year 1880,
adopted as an amendment to the constitution of the state the following:
"No person shall manufacture for sale, or sell, or keep for sale as a
beverage, any intoxicating liquors whatever, including ale, wine and
beer. The general assembly shall by law prescribe regulations for the
enforcement of the prohibition herein contained, and shall thereby
provide suitable penalties for the violation of the provisions hereof."
This amendment, by omission of the clerk of the house of
representatives, was not entered in full upon the journals of that
body. It was, however, embraced in a joint resolution of the two houses
and fully identified by its title upon the journal of the house and
senate, and the vote adopting the same was duly recorded by yeas and
nays as required by the constitution. The publication of this action of
the eighteenth general assembly was duly made in the newspapers prior
to the election of the nineteenth general assembly, and at the session
of that body another joint resolution was passed in both houses
embracing the amendment and reciting the action of the eighteenth
general assembly thereon, and this joint resolution passed both houses,
and the yeas and nays were fully recorded, and proclamation was made by
the Governor of the state, and the people of the state at a subsequent
election held on June 27, 1882, after a vigorous canvass of the merits
of the question, endorsed and adopted the amendment by nearly thirty
thousand majority.
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