[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repealed.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.