How many U.S. Constitution Amendments have been repealed?

Only one (1) amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been passed and then repealed. The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.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.

The Twenty-first Amendment 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.

The Eighteenth Amendment will indeed remain in the Constitution, but a notation will be added to the effect that it is repealed by the Twenty-first.

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Robert Oldenburg

No matter a person’s view on alcohol, a constitutional amendment was the wrong answer. The same thing applies to other drugs as well. My personal opinion is that because of the 10th amendment laws concerning these issue should be legislated by the states and not the federal government.

Jas Newman

Elsy O. Stromberg, Sure, as with the 18th, only criminals would have guns. Remember, the 18th was an attempt to prohibit something a large number of people wanted.

teacherchicky

Thank God they did because people were selling it illegally and it could be made from anything! There were stills and bootleggers making an enormous amount of money from alcohol that wasn't regulated and we KNOW nobody does that better than the US government! 😉