Amendment XXI, Section 3

Debates in Congress

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 20, 1933, ¶ 7

  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, w1thm seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress."

  The paragraph gives the words of section 3 of the joint resolution; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 3 of the Twenty-first Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 20, 1933 (2), ¶ 19

  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 paragraph gives the words of section 3 of the joint resolution; they appear unchanged in Section 3 of the Twenty-first Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 20, 1933 (2), ¶ 45

  This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions 1n the several States, as provided 1n the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress."

  The paragraph gives the words of section 3 of the joint resolution; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 3 of the Twenty-first Amendment.

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  Senate, February 15, 1933, ¶ 4

  This article shall be inoperative unless it shall ha.ve been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission."

  The paragraph gives the words of section 2 of a proposed substitute; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 3 of the Twenty-first Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, February 15, 1933 (2), ¶ 35

  This article shall be inoperative unless lt shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of 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 paragraph gives the words of section 4 of the joint resolution as reported; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 3 of the Twenty-first Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, February 15, 1933 (2), ¶ 46

  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 thereof to the States by the Congress."

  The paragraph gives the words of section 2 of a proposed substitute; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 3 of the Twenty-first Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, February 15, 1933 (2), ¶ 331

  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 paragraph gives the words of section 4 of the joint resolution as proposed to be amended; they appear unchanged in Section 3 of the Twenty-first Amendment.

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  Senate, February 16, 1933, ¶ 8

  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 paragraph gives the words of section 2 of a proposed substitute; they appear unchanged in Section 3 of the Twenty-first Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, February 16, 1933 (2), ¶ 377

  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 paragraph gives the words of section 2 of a proposed substitute; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 3 of the Twenty-first Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, February 16, 1933 (2), ¶ 478

  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 paragraph gives the words of section 3 of the joint resolution as passed; they appear unchanged in Section 3 of the Twenty-first Amendment.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, March 7, 1947 (2), ¶ 167

  The only instance within my recollection in which conventions were provided for was on the submission of the repeal of the · eighteenth amendment.

  The paragraph names the provision for ratification by conventions in the amendment repealing the eighteenth amendment, which is Section 3 of the Twenty-first Amendment.