    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
    [104th Congress]
    [House Document 103-342]
    [The United States Constitution]
    [Pages 105-106]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                              AMENDMENT XXI.a

    Sec. 247. Repeal of prohibition.

      Section 1.  The eighteenth
    article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby
    repealed.

      a The 21st amendment to the Constitution of the United States was
    proposed to conventions of the several States by the 72d Congress on
    February 20, 1933, and was declared in a proclamation by the Acting
    Secretary of State dated December 5, 1933, to have been ratified by
    conventions in thirty-six of the forty-eight States. The dates of these
    ratifications were: Michigan, April 10, 1933; Wisconsin, April 25, 1933;
    Rhode Island, May 8, 1933; Wyoming, May 25, 1933; New Jersey, June 1,
    1933; Delaware, June 24, 1933; Massachusetts, June 26, 1933; Indiana,
    June 26, 1933; New York, June 27, 1933; Illinois, July 10, 1933; Iowa,
    July 10, 1933; Connecticut, July 11, 1933; New Hampshire, July 11, 1933;
    California, July 24, 1933; West Virginia, July 25, 1933; Arkansas,
    August 1, 1933; Oregon, August 7, 1933; Alabama, August 8, 1933;
    Tennessee, August 11, 1933; Missouri, August 29, 1933; Arizona,
    September 5, 1933; Nevada, September 5, 1933; Vermont, September 23,
    1933; Colorado, September 26, 1933; Washington, October 3, 1933;
    Minnesota, October 10, 1933; Idaho, October 17, 1933; Maryland, October
    18, 1933; Virginia, October 25, 1933; New Mexico, November 2, 1933;
    Florida, November 14, 1933; Texas, November 24, 1933; Kentucky, November
    27, 1933; Ohio, December 5, 1933; Pennsylvania, December 5, 1933; Utah,
    December 5, 1933. The amendment was subsequently ratified by Maine on
    December 6, 1933; Montana, August 6, 1934. The convention held in the
    State of South Carolina on December 4, 1933, rejected the 21st
    amendment.
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    ery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws
    thereof, is hereby prohibited.

    Sec. 248. Transportation into States
    prohibited.

      Section 2.  The transportation or importation into any State,
    Territory, or possession of the United States for deliv

      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.