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Lawmaking's undo button, except someone has to vote twice to press it.
means To officially cancel or revoke a law, so it no longer has legal force.
from From Anglo-Norman 'repeler,' built from Old French 're-' (back) plus 'apeler' (to call, to appeal) — so literally 'to call back.' It entered English legal and legislative use in the medieval period, keeping that core sense of summoning a law back and formally withdrawing it, the way you'd recall an order before it's carried out.
- not amend
- removes a law entirely, doesn't tweak it
- harder than passing
- often needs same majority that created the law
- famous flop
- prohibition repealed by the 21st amendment, 1933
- politics forever
- promising repeal is easier than achieving it