Time limit for ratifying the Twenty-first Amendment
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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.
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
This article is inoperative unless ratified by conventions in the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by Congress.