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The Blaine Act was sponsored by Wisconsin senator John J. Blaine and passed by the United States Senate on February 17, 1933, to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, or Prohibition. The repeal was formally adopted as the 21st Amendment of the Constitution on December 5, 1933.
References
- "John J. Blaine, former US senator and governor, dies", Fennimore Times, Apr 18, 1934.
- "History of alcohol prohibition", National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, based in large part on a paper prepared for the Commission by Jane Lang McGrew.
- "Prohibition: The 21st Amendment", TIME magazine, Feb. 27, 1933.
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