After Henry T. Rainey’s December 5, 1932 repeal resolution failed, its state-convention mechanism was restored to the Senate measure on February 15, 1933; the Senate approved the measure on February 16; and the House approved it 289 to 121 on February 20. The resulting joint resolution required ratification by conventions in three-fourths of the states.
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Organized Repeal converts discontent into constitutional changeRainey repeal resolution fails but introduces the convention mechanismSenate restores state-convention ratification to the repeal measureSenate approves the repeal amendment proposalCongress submits the Twenty-first Amendment through state conventionsTwenty-First Amendment repeals national constitutional ProhibitionThe mechanism enabled ratification but should not be treated as sufficient without the organized political and state campaigns that produced convention votes.
The official House history supplies the legislative sequence and vote; the complete enrolled joint resolution directly establishes the convention requirement.
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