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Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use there in 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.

Resources in This Category

• American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition

  http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?issueID=28&articleID=347
  Includes a review of the book by Kenneth D. Rose and links to its purchase.

• Repeal of Prohibition in the U.S.

  http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/controversies/1131637220.html
  Included are a history of the repeal process and the people who worked to that end.

• Repealing National Prohibition

  http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/rnp/rnptoc.htm
  Series of articles on what was expected with the 18th amendment, why it didn't deliver and why it was repealed.

• Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
  Repeal of the 18th amendment or prohibition. Included are ratification states and dates, text and background.

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