Article XX[Proposed 1932; Ratified 1933]
- Section 1 The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon
on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the
3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had
not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
- Section 2 The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and
such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law
appoint a different day.
- Section 3 If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the
President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become
President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the
beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the
Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and
the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice
President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the
manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly
until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
- Section 4 The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any
of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the
right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the
persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice
shall have devolved upon them.
- Section 5 Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October
following the ratification of this article.
- Section 6 This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the
several States within seven years from the date of its submission.
Article
XXI[Proposed 1933; Ratified 1933]
- Section 1 The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the
United States is hereby repealed.
- Section 2 The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or
possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in
violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
- Section 3 This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as
provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to
the States by the Congress.
Article XXII [Proposed 1947;
Ratified 1951]
- Section 1 No person shall be elected to the office of the President more
than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for
more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be
elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to
any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress,
and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as
President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the
office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
- Section 2 This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the
several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the
Congress.
Article XXIII [Proposed 1960; Ratified 1961]
- Section 1 The District constituting the seat of Government of the United
States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:
A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators
and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a
State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to
those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the
election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they
shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of
amendment.
- Section 2 The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
Article XXIV [Proposed
1962; Ratified 1964]
- Section 1 The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any
primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or
Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or
other tax.
- Section 2 The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
Article XXV [Proposed
1965; Ratified 1967]
- Section 1 In case of the removal of the President from office or of his
death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
- Section 2 Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President,
the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a
majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
- Section 3 Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of
the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he
is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them
a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the
Vice President as Acting President.
- Section 4 Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the
principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by
law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to
discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume
the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
- Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and
the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability
exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and
a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other
body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro
tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written
declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that
purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the
latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days
after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that
the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice
President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the
President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Article XXVI [Proposed 1971; Ratified 1971]
- Section 1 The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen
years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by
any State on account of age.
- Section 2 The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
Inoperative Article [Proposed 1972; Expired Unratified
1982]
- Section 1 Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
- Section 2 The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate
legislation, the provisions of this article.
- Section 3 This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of
ratification.
Inoperative Article [Proposed
1978; Expired Unratified 1985]
- Section 1 For purposes of representation in the Congress, election of the
President and Vice President, and article V of this Constitution, the District
constituting the seat of government of the United States shall be treated as though it
were a State.
- Section 2 The exercise of the rights and powers conferred under this
article shall be by the people of the District constituting the seat of government, and as
shall be provided by the Congress.
- Section 3 The twenty-third article of amendment to the Constitution of the
United States is hereby repealed.
- Section 4 This article shall be inoperative, unless it shall have been
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the
several States within seven years from the date of its submission.
Article XXVII [Proposed 1789; Ratified 1992; Second of twelve
Articles comprising the Bill of Rights]
No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives,
shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
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