National Archives Proclamation 2065 and amendment text.
Ratification of the Twenty-First Amendment was completed on December 5, 1933. Section 1 repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, while Section 2 preserved state power to prohibit transportation or importation of intoxicating liquor in violation of state law.
Ratification date confirmed by National Archives archival and exhibit records.
Do not describe Repeal as complete federal deregulation or as the restoration of a uniform pre-1920 market. State prohibition and control systems continued, and industry reconstruction took years.
The amendment and presidential proclamation directly establish the repeal language, state-import provision, and ratification date.
Publication-safe exact-day event; keep separate from the broader organized-Repeal movement and post-Repeal reconstruction.