why did the repeal of prohibition need to come about through a constitutional amendment
The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished. The repeal of Prohibition in the United States was accomplished with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 5, 1933.ive years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass.