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Preamble · Seven Articles
Twenty-seven Amendments

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The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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

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