# All US Constitutional Amendments are wiped out, which come back and which are gone forever?

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> [@SenorBeef](#):
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> 1. Keeper. I don’t think it’s good or useful, but the current people in power are in power because they know how to work the current system, so they’ll vote to maintain that.

It’s also pretty popular. If it’s not re-upped I think you’d see it done widely at the state level, which is what happened the first time around when people got tired of how horribly the old method worked.

ETA: For all I know it might still be a vestigial part of some state constitutions.

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