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National Prohibition in the U.S. was repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment which contains two short but important sentences:
Section 1: The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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 one made it again legal to import, produce, and sell beverage alcohol, while section two delegated to the individual states authority for regulating such beverages. Some states continued prohibition at the state level. The last state repealed it in 1966. Almost two-thirds of all states adopted some form of local option which enabled residents in political subdivisions to vote for or against local prohibition. Therefore, despite the repeal of prohibition at the national level, 38 percent of the nation's population lived in areas with state or local prohibition.16
The matter of Prohibition versus Repeal had long been a contentious one and often divided friends and even families. It sometimes still does. Today, there are hundreds of dry (prohibition) counties across the United States with about 16,000,000 people seven decades after national repeal.
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Which amendment repealed another amendment?
The 21st amendment, which is the repeal of prohibition, repealed the 18th amendment which was about prohibition.
What was the intent of the 18th amendment?
to repeal prohibition
What amendment is the repeal of prohibition in?
The 21st Amendment (XXI) in 1933 repealed Prohibition, which had been previously instituted by the 18th Amendment (XVIII), ratified in 1919.
The repeal of Prohibition through ratification of the 21st Amendment was unusual in that ratification in that instance was?
The repeal of the 21st amendment was unusual because it repealed a previous amendment. The 21st amendment voided the 18th amendment which outlawed alcohol.
What did the repeal of the 18th amendment allow?
Repeal of National Prohibition in the US allowed individual states whether to have state-wide prohibition or to permit "local option" whereby counties and other political jurisdictions could decide for themselves whether or not to have local prohibition.
Why did amendment 21 repeal amendment18?
The 18th amendment banned alcohol and started prohibition. Instead of repealing 18th amenment, the 21st amendment was passed.
What is a repealed prohibition?
The Repeal of Prohibition in the United States was accomplished with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 5, 1933.
What were the purposes of the 20th and 21st amendments?
The purpose of the 20th amendment was to deal with the repeal of prohibition and the 21st amendment focused on limits on presidential terms.
Repeal of the 18th amendment allowed?
Repeal of National Prohibition in the US allowed individual states whether to have state-wide prohibition or to permit "local option" whereby counties and other political jurisdictions could decide for themselves whether or not to have local prohibition.
What amendment states The eighteenth amendment is repealed?
Yes, I would. End of Prohibition, 5 Dec 1933. Repeal was supported by the majority of Americans.
Who proposed amendment twenty one?
Senator John J. Blaine, (R) Wisconsin sponsored the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution to repeal the 18th Amendment (commonly referred to as prohibition).
What is a repealed?
The Repeal of Prohibition in the United States was accomplished with the passage of the Twenty-First Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 5, 1933.
