Amend. XXI, § 2
State liquor laws protected
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States & Federalism
Amend. XI–XXVII · Later Amendments
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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.
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
Transporting or importing intoxicating liquors into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use there, in violation of its laws, is prohibited.