Why was the 18th amendment repealed by the 21st amendment?
The Eighteenth Amendment was ratified on on the 16th of January
in the year 1919. The amendment went into effect one year later on
the 16th of January, 1920, and was later repealed by the 21st
Amendment on December 5, 1933. In the 230 plus years of the U.S.
Constitution, the 18th is the only Amendment ever to have been
repealed. The 18th Amendment was repealed because did not solve any
problems people thought it would. This Amendment banned the sale
and consumption of alcohol. People thought banning it would end bad
social problems, such as crime and poverty. The Amendment had the
opposite effect. Crime and poverty increased and government
spending increased to try to enforce it. So repealing the 18th
Amendment lowered government spending.