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How many amendments to the United States constitution have been repealed by other amendments?

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The only amendment that has been repealed is prohibition.

It was repealed because it was hugely unpopular, totally ineffective and a large factor in increasing the power of the Mafia in the USA.

It was passed in the first place because of misguided nonsense paraded by well-meaning moralistic busybodies.

Sort of like the war on the (rest of) drugs .... except many of those are still illegal and they were not part of a constitutional amendment.
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