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it was the prohibition act (no alcohal) The 21st amendment to the United States constitution repealed the 18th amendment to the United States constitution which had mandeted nationwide prohibition.

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The 21st Amendment (1933) repealed the 18th Amendment (1919) that banned the import or transportation of Alcoholic Beverages in the United States. It ended the period known as Prohibition, during which laws made the manufacture or sale of alcohol illegal.

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The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for election to the office of President of the United States. Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947. It was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 27, 1951.

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It repealed the 18th Amendment (prohibition). Here is exactly what it contains:

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 The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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.

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The 21 Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment of prohibition of alcohol.

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The 21st amendment to the United States constitution repealed the 18th amendment to the United States constitution which had mandeted nationwide prohibition.

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The twenty-First Amendment repealed the eighteenth amendment, ending prohibition of alcohol.

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It repeals amendment #18 that say you can't make or transport alcohol.

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The 21st Amendment made it legal for adults to drink alcohol in the United States and ended the Prohibition Era. It reversed the 18th Amendment.

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What is the only amendment to overrule a previous amendment?

The 21st amendment repealed, the 18th amendment (prohibition). It is said the the 18th amendment was passed while we were drunk, and the 21st was passed while we were sober.


What law ended Prohibition?

The 21st amendment officially ended it.


How did prohibition ends?

With the 21st Amendment


How was prohibition repealed with the 21st amendment?

The 21st Amendment nullified the 18th Amendment that created Prohibition.


What amendment repealed to the eighteenth amendment?

The 18th amendment established prohibition The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th amendment.


Was it the 18th or 21st amendment to be repealed?

The 21st amendment repealed the 18th a,emdment,


Who was the 21st amendment targeted toward?

The 21st amendment ended National Prohibition.


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 21st amendmeant end?

The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment and ended Prohobition.


If the 21st amendment eliminates this?

The 21st Amendment revoked the 18th Amendment- which outlawed the sale of alcoholic beverages. This was known as Prohibition. 21st made sale legal again.


Amendment that repealed probation?

The 21st Amendment.


Which Amendment revoked the Eighteenth Amendment?

The 21st