Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution

Validated on December 5, 1933, the Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution canceled the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and ended the Prohibition Era in the United States.[1] It is the only Amendment to repeal another amendment.[2] It is also the only Amendment to have been ratified by state ratifying conventions rather than by state legislatures.[3]

  1. "Twenty-first Amendment". Annenberg Classroom. The Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  2. "Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-First Amendment to the United States Constitution". The National Archives. 20 February 1933. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  3. "Twenty-First Amendment". The Free Dictionary/Farlex. Retrieved 17 March 2016.

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