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Eighteenth Amendment

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2023
Entity authorityQ5349067 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Eighteenth Amendment may refer to:

Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which established Prohibition

Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India, 1966 amendment which clarified the meaning of "state"

Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which permitted the state to ratify the Amsterdam Treaty

Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which reduced the powers of the President of Pakistan

Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa, which made South African Sign Language an official language

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Eighteenth Amendment” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Eighteenth, Amendment and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Eighteenth, Amendment and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Eighteenth Amendment” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.