    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 117th Congress]
    [117th Congress]
    [House Document 116-177]
    [The United States Constitution]
    [Pages 116-117]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                          AMENDMENT XXI.\12\

    Sec. 247. Repeal of prohibition.

      Section 1.  The eighteenth
    article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby
    repealed.
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      \12\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 36 of the 48 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.

    Sec. 248. Transportation into States
    prohibited.

      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.