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.
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."
The twenty first amendment is applicably numbered, as it has to do with alcohol and you must be 21 years of age to legally purchase and consume alcohol in the United States. This amendment overturns the eighteenth amendment, which had previously made the sale of alcohol illegal within the United States.
Despite the idea that the amendments of the United States Constitution were ratified to remain in the country's legislature permanently, this amendment was ratified to directly make another amendment useless. It revoked the power of the eighteenth amendment and made the sale of alcohol legal within the United States once again.
The eighteenth amendment was not a popular amendment, so it really seemed like it would have just come down to a matter of time before the laws enacted within the eighteenth amendment were changed.
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