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Long title Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Nicknames Senate Joint Resolution 211 Enacted by the 72nd United States Congress | ||
The Blaine Act was sponsored by Wisconsin Senator John J. Blaine and passed by the United States Senate on February 17, 1933. It initiated the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which established Prohibition in the United States. The repeal was formally adopted as the 21st Amendment to the Constitution on December 5, 1933.
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