What is Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution?
{{US Constitution article series}} [[Ratification|Validated]] on December 5, 1933, the '''Twenty-first Amendment''' ('''Amendment XXI''') to the [[United States Constitution]] [[repeal|canceled]] the [[Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] and ended the [[Prohibition Era]] in the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/twenty-first-amendment |title=Twenty-first Amendment |website=Annenberg Classroom |publisher=The Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics |access-date=17 March 2016}}</ref> It is the only Amendment to repeal another amendment.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://docsteach.org/documents/596379/detail |title=Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-First Amendment to the United States Constitution |date=20 February 1933 |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=17 March 2016}}</ref> It is also the only Amendment to have been ratified by [[state ratifying conventions]] rather than by [[Legislature|state legislatures]].<ref name=Farlex>{{cite web |url=http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Twenty-First+Amendment |title=Twenty-First Amendment |publisher=The Free Dictionary/Farlex |access-date=17 March 2016}}</ref> == Text == {{quote|'''Section 1.'''<br> The [[Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|eighteenth article of amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution|Constitution of the United States]] is hereby [[repeal]]ed. '''Section 2.'''<br> 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.'''<br> 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.}} == Background == The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution had started a period in the [[US]] kn