AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION, 1933 WILLIAM PHILLIPS December 5, 1933. ACTING SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: KNOW YE That the Congress of the United States at the second TwentJ·firstAm~d- • ' , • ment to the COnstltu- seSSIOn, seventy-second Congress begun and held at the CIty of tlon. Washington on Monday, the fifth day of December, in the year one Preamble. thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, passed a Joint Resolution in the words and figures as follows: to wit- JOINT RESOLL"TIOX Proposing an nmendment to the Constitution of the "['"nited States. Resolved by the Senate and House oj Representatives oj the United States oj America in Congress assembled (two-thirds oj each House con- c1lrring therein), That the following article is hereby proposed as an Amendment p.ro - amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be ~ to the ConsUtu- valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when Vol. iI . p. 1625. ratified by conventions in three-fourths of the several States: "ARTICLE- "SECTION 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitu- m:if~t=~!d amend· tion of the United States is hereby repealed. ne . "SEC. 2 . The transportation or importation into any State, Terri- Pro~ibition of liquor . fhU.dS f Il' h . f traffic mto a State. etc., tory, or posseSSIon 0 t e mte tates or ( e Ivery or use t erem 0 in violation of its laws. intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited. "SEC. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been I~ope~ati\'e if not ifi d d hC..b .. h ratified In seven yelil8. rat e as an amen ment to t e onstltutIOn y conventIOns m t e several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress." And, further, that it appears from official notices received at the ~tes ratJfyin~ pro- Department of State that the Amendment to the Constitution of the amen men. United States proposed as aforesaid has been ratified by conventions in the States of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ken- tucky, :Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, W'ashington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. And further that the States wherein conventions have so ratified Requisite number the sai~l propo;ed Amendment, constitute the requisite three-fourths declared. of the whole number of States in the United States. 1749
