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The Twenty-First Amendment, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment, is the only constitutional amendment to be ratified by state conventions (Vile, 1996, p. 318).

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Vile, John R. (1996). Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789-1995. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc.

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21 amendment. It was thought that the temperance lobby would be beholden to or fearful of the powerful temperance lobby.

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