Sentence examples for the twentieth amendment from inspiring English sources

* The part included in brackets has been superseded by Section 3 of the Twentieth Amendment.

(New Presidents used to be sworn in on March 4th. In 1933, the Twentieth Amendment changed the date to January 20th, to shorten the awkward interregnum between election and Inauguration).

With the ratification of the Twentieth Amendment in 1933, however, the beginning of congressional and presidential terms were rescheduled to January 3 and January 20, respectively, and subsequent State of the Union addresses were delivered in January or early February.

The date for convening was set in the Constitution as the first Monday in December; however, in the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution the date was changed to January 3.

Commonly known as the "Lame Duck Amendment , the Twentieth Amendment was designed to remove the excessively long period of time a defeated president or member of Congress would continue to serve after his or her failed bid for reelection.

Hoover was right that the long transition period was a problem, one remedied by the Twentieth Amendment, which was ratified the following month and moved future Inaugurations to the January after the election.

Check the First Amendment.

The Sixteenth Amendment was not.

The Fourth Amendment must prevail".

"The First Amendment and food.

(The Fourteenth Amendment voided Dred Scott.