Sentence examples for twentieth amendment from inspiring English sources

* The part included in brackets has been superseded by Section 3 of the Twentieth Amendment.

Twentieth Amendment, amendment (1933) to the Constitution of the United States indicating the beginning and ending dates of presidential and congressional terms.

(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.

Mr. LaPierre, before the Second Amendment was the First Amendment.

Fourteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment.

Check the First Amendment.

First Amendment?

"The First Amendment and food.