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The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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.
Repealed the 18th Amendment, and made it legal to consume alcohol, if the 21st amendment passed. However the local and state governments could still ban the transportation, possession and sale of alcohol. Like the 18th amendment, if the amendment was not passed in 21 years it would not be valid.
Read the Article about the 21st Amendment's 82nd Birthday Anniversary.....!
http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/legal-research/today-1933-21st-amendment-ratified-ending-prohibition/
This is a great excerpt from the article,
This article tells us why this is the only amendment in the constitution to be repealed. It took 13 years for this amendment to repeal, and the article talks about what happened in those 13 years. I particularily enjoy the section that goes into full detail why the 18th amendment failed(pictured above). It is true, legal alcohol consumption is something people take advantage of all over the world, not exclusively the U.S.
21st Amendment (I Like It Like That)
(A bit pitchy...but high quality and creative lyrics!)
This video highlights all the great things that came from repealing the 18th amendment. Including a decrease in violence and crime. It also features how happy and thrilled many American's were after the 21st amendment! The era of Prohibition was not a happy time for most, and the quality of life and sense of society dropped drastically. 
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