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THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
ARTICLE XXI.
(February 20, 1933: Proposed to the states by Congress;
December 5, 1933: ratification completed;
December 5, 1933: ratification declared.)
SECTION 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
SECTION 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.
SECTION 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.
ARTICLE XXII.
(March 21, 1947: Proposed to the states by Congress;
February 27, 1951: ratification completed;
March 1, 1951: ratification declared.)
SECTION 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
SEC. 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
ARTICLE XXIII.
(June 17, 1960: Proposed to the states by Congress;
March 29, 1961: ratification completed;
April 3, 1961: ratification declared.)
SECTION 1. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:
A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
SEC. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
ARTICLE XXIV.
(August 27, 1962: Proposed to the states by Congress;
January 23, 1964: ratification completed;
February 4, 1964: ratification declared.)
SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
SEC. 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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