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 here of to the States by the Congress."
The Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment which was a ban on pretty much anything related to Alcohol. All the 18th Amendment did was put hard working people in the alcohol industry out of work and increased crime rates. This made it legal for bars and breweries to open up again and took the money out of the hands of criminals.
This is a picture of men marching holding a funny sign protesting prohibition. I know so many people who enjoy drinking I couldn't imagine what it would be like if they had that right taken away. I also work in the Power and Light District which pays its rent in Alcohol sales, so I and a lot of my friends wouldn't have jobs right now without the 21st Amendment.
This is a poster somebody made to tell Congress that prohibition failed and caused crime rates to go up instead of down. The people who were trying to get prohibition passed made a lot of promises about life getting better without alcohol and none of them turned out to be true. Nothing good came out of prohibition unless you were a mobster.
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