Dillon v. Gloss

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Dillon v. Gloss
Syllabus

Dillon v. Gloss, 256 U.S. 368 (1921), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that if the United States Congress—when proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States—desires to place a deadline on that particular constitutional amendment's ratification, that Congress may indeed do precisely that and further that Congress' selection of a seven-year time constraint upon the ratification of what later became the Constitution's 18th Amendment was not deemed to be unreasonable by the Court.

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United States Supreme Court

256 U.S. 368

Dillon  v.  Gloss

 Argued: March 22, 1921. --- Decided: May 16, 1921

Messrs. Levi Cooke, of Washington, D. C., and Theodore A. Bell, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

[Argument of Counsel from page 369-370 intentionally omitted]

The Assistant Attorney General Adams, for appellee.

Mr. Justice VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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