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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 The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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 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.
Section 1. This amendment reverses the Eighteenth Amendment, which banned the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages, ending Prohibition, which had only begun 13 years before this amendment was ratified. This is the only Amendment that explicitly cancels another amendment.
Section 2. States now have the power to handle transportation, importation, and use of alcohol within their states, giving them control over restrictions and laws. This gives states more freedom to decide on what to do without facing any federal pressures.
Section 3. For this amendment to take effect, it has to have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by states within seven years that it was submitted to the states by Congress.
This amendment was necessary because even though there was a ban on alcohol, people were still consuming it by going to speakeasies and technically supporting organized crime, which just showed that the US was losing money by banning alcohol. It’s good that this amendment gave people back their freedom of choice to drink alcohol or not.