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The Twenty-first Amendment in the National Archives. The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol. The Twenty-first Amendment was proposed by the 72nd Congress on February 20, 1933, and was ...
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. [4] Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process.
The 21st is also the only constitutional amendment that repealed another one, that being the 18th Amendment, which had been ratified 14 years earlier. As is true for a state legislature when ratifying a proposed federal constitutional amendment, a state ratifying convention may not in any way change a proposed constitutional amendment, but must ...
The Twenty-first Amendment or 21st Amendment may refer to the: Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, a 1967 amendment which introduced Sindhi as one of the official languages of India; Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, a 2001 amendment that introduced a constitutional ban on the death penalty
A longtime Wilmington writer has landed on a prestigious list of the best books written this century. John Jeremiah Sullivan, who has lived in Wilmington since the mid-2000s, comes in at No. 81 ...
The Volstead Act implemented the 18th Amendment (Prohibition). The act defined "intoxicating beverage" as one with 0.5 percent alcohol by weight. Numerous problems with enforcement [1] and a desire to create jobs and raise tax revenue by legalizing beer, wine, and liquor [2] led a majority of voters and members of Congress to turn against Prohibition by late 1932.
Lavinia is a Locus Award-winning [1] novel by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. Published in 2008, it was Le Guin's last novel. Published in 2008, it was Le Guin's last novel. It is written in a first-person, self-conscious style that recounts the life of Lavinia , a minor character in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid .
At the time it was sent to the states for ratification, an affirmative vote by ten states would have made this amendment operational. In 1791 and 1792, when Vermont and Kentucky joined the Union, the number climbed to twelve. Thus, the amendment remained one state shy of the number needed for it to become part of the Constitution.