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Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution
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Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution
The
Twenty-first Amendment
(
Amendment XXI
) to the
United States Constitution
repealed the
Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
, which had mandated nationwide
Prohibition on alcohol
on January 17, 1920. The Twenty-first Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933. It is unique among the 27 amendments of the U.S. Constitution for being the only one to repeal a prior amendment and to have been ratified by
state ratifying conventions
.
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