There have been 27 Amendments to the U. S. Constitution since it was ratified in 1787. That’s pretty remarkable when you stop to think about it. Twenty-seven changes to a document creating a new Nation!

And one of those amendments was to revoke a prior amendment. There’s been only one time in the history of our country when one amendment was confirmed in order to strike out an earlier change. That, of course, was in 1933 when the twenty-first amendment was adopted in order to repeal the eighteenth amendment.

You remember the 18th amendment. It prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. It was passed in 1919. When you consider all this, it is clear that the 21st amendment prohibited Prohibition!

I think that’s a pretty good record for one constitution.