Amend. XXI, § 1

Repeal of Prohibition

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The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Proposal and ratification: The twenty-first amendment to the Constitution was proposed to the several states by the Seventy-Second Congress, on the 20th day of February, 1933, and was declared, in a proclamation by the Secretary of State, dated on the 5th day of December, 1933, to have been ratified by 36 of the 48 States. was completed on December 5, 1933.

Simplified explanation

The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed.