AMENDMENT XXI
Passed by Congress February 20, 1933. Ratified
December 5, 1933.
Section 1.
The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United
States is hereby repealed.
Section 2.
The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or
Possession
of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating
liquors,
in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Section 3. This article shall be
inoperative unless
it
shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by
conventions
in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven
years
from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
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