Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House first showed a Dry majority (197 to 189) on a resolution to amend the Constitution prohibiting intoxicating beverages. Offered by Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson of Alabama the resolution failed to win the necessary two-thirds majority...
Ingeniously the Commission proposed (that Congress amend the Jones Law to define "casual or slight violations," removing them from the category of "infamous crimes." Petty violators would then not be indicted, tried by jury, but would be brought before U. S. Commissioners for a judicial hearing. The commissioner in turn would report the details of each case, with recommendations, to the U. S. District Judge who, probably never seeing the offender, would render a decision, pass sentence. If found guilty by this speedy process, the petty defendant would still have the right to appeal for a jury trial...