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The 18th amendment to the US Constitution instituted prohibition of alcohol sales and production in January 1919. In December of 1933 the 21st amendment cancelled the 18th amendment by stipulating that individual states should regulate alcohol.
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Once ratified a constitutional amendment may only be changed by doing what?
It can only be changed by passing another constitutional amendment. The best example of this is the 18th amendment, which was later overturned by passage of the 21st amendment. (These amendments related to prohibition and then the repeal thereof.)
How does an amendment get repealed?
You create another amendment repealing one of the previous. :)
Canceling an amendment with another amendment is called what?
Repeal
What term applies to an amendment that is removed by another amendment?
repealed
How do you cancel an amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
Constitution of the United States of America, Article V: The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article, and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.So, An amendment removing an amendment is a repeal.
