Dillon v. Gloss
Dillon v. Gloss, 256 U.S. 368 (1921), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that Congress, when proposing a constitutional amendment under the authority given to it by Article V of the Constitution, may fix a definite period for its ratification, and further, that the reasonableness of the seven-year period, fixed by Congress in the resolution proposing the Eighteenth Amendment is beyond question. Additionally, the Court, upon taking judicial notice that the Eighteenth Amendment became a part of the Constitution on January 16, 1919, when its ratification in the state legislatures was consummated, held that the National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, entered into force on January 16, 1920.
| Dillon v. Gloss | |
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Supreme Court of the United States | |
| Argued March 22, 1921 Decided May 16, 1921 | |
| Full case name | Dillon v. Gloss, Deputy Collector |
| Citations | 256 U.S. 368 (more) 41 S. Ct. 510; 65 L. Ed. 994; 1921 U.S. LEXIS 1612 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | 262 Fed. 563 |
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| Case opinion | |
| Majority | Van Devanter, joined by unanimous |
| Laws applied | |
| Article V of the Constitution | |
Overruled by | |
| Coleman v. Miller (1939) (in part) | |
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