- Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol
- Twenty-First Amendment | Resources - Constitution Annotated
The original text of the Twenty-First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States
- Twenty-first Amendment | Repeal, Prohibition, Ratification | Britannica
Twenty-first Amendment, amendment (1933) to the Constitution of the United States that officially repealed federal prohibition, which had been enacted through the Eighteenth Amendment, adopted in 1919
- Interpretation: The Twenty-First Amendment | Constitution Center
Although the Constitution has been formally amended 27 times, the Twenty-First Amendment (ratified in 1933) is the only one that repeals a previous amendment, namely, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), which prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors ”
- 21st Amendment | U. S. Constitution | US Law | LII Legal Information . . .
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
- The Repeal of Prohibition Amendment | The Heritage Guide to the . . .
This essay explores the amendment that repealed Prohibition (Twenty-First Amendment), ending the nationwide ban on alcohol and restoring state and individual rights over the legal distribution and consumption of alcohol
- Constitutional Amendments – Amendment 21 – “Repeal of Prohibition”
Amendment Twenty-one to the Constitution was ratified on December 5, 1933 It repealed the previous Eighteenth Amendment which had established a nationwide ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol
- 21st Amendment: Prohibition repealed - Government and Constitution
Summary: The 21st Amendment was ratified in 1933, during the administration of FDR, repealing Prohibition, the ban on alcohol that had been in force since 1920 under the 18th Amendment
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