XXI Amendment

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The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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


In response to the Great Depression along with all the criminality from Prohibition contenders, the 21st amendment was ratified to end Prohibition.






A wine drinker contributes his understanding of what the 18th amendment caused and the reason for the 21st amendment.








The Chicago newspaper reporting the repeal on Prohibition, now everyone's happy!