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Amendment XXI · Section 1

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The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

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Passed by Congress February 20, 1933. Ratified December 5, 933.

Source: the uploaded National Constitution Center edition. Historical wording and its bracket markers remain visible; later amendments and the reading notes explain changes.

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