Twenty-first Amendment
Repealed the Eighteenth
The Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, ratified in 1933, repealed Prohibition by nullifying the Eighteenth Amendment.
It ended the federal ban on manufacturing, selling, and transporting alcoholic beverages, while granting states authority to regulate alcohol within their borders.
It remains the only constitutional amendment that repeals another.
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- repealAnnul a statute
- noble experiment1920s liquor ban
- alcoholIntoxicating hydroxyl compound
- bootlegIllegally produced goods
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Constitutional alcohol ban
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