Amendment XX, Section 1

Debates in Congress

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 12, 1932, ¶ 227

  The terms of the President .and Vice President shall end at noon on the 15th day of Ja.nua.ry, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 2d 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.

  The paragraph gives the words of section 1 of the Senate joint resolution; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 12, 1932, ¶ 229

  January, and the terms of Senators · and Representatives at noon on the 4th day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended i:f this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors Shall then begin.

  The paragraph gives the words of section 1 of the House amendment; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 12, 1932, ¶ 293

  …24th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 4th day of January, of the years in which such terms would ha v e ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of . their successors shall then begin.

  The paragraph gives the words of section 1 of the joint resolution; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 12, 1932, ¶ 461

  The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 24th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 4th 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.

  The paragraph gives the words of section 1 of the proposed amendment; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 13, 1932, ¶ 85

  …when the terms of President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 24th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 4th day of January of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified.

  The paragraph sets out section 1 of the joint resolution in its own words; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 13, 1932, ¶ 238

  The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 24th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 4th 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.

  The paragraph gives the words of section 1 of the joint resolution; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 13, 1932, ¶ 250

  The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 24th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 4th 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.

  The paragraph reads out section 1 of the joint resolution; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 13, 1932, ¶ 295

  The last sentence provides: And the terms of their successors shall then begin.

  The paragraph quotes the last sentence of section 1 of the joint resolution; these words appear unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 13, 1932, ¶ 432

  The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 24th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 4th 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.

  The paragraph gives the words of section 1 of the joint resolution; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 13, 1932 (2), ¶ 38

  …the terms of the President and Vice President shall begin on the 24th day of January at noon and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 4th day of January of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and that the terms of their successors shall then begin.

  The paragraph sets out section 1 of the proposed amendment largely in its words; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, March 1, 1932, ¶ 11

  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.

  The paragraph gives the words of section 1 as agreed in conference; they appear unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, March 1, 1932, ¶ 25

  The Senate resolution provides that the terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on January 15 and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on January 2.

  The statement of the managers gives, in reporting the Senate resolution, words of its section 1; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.

• cited bySuggested
  House, February 6, 1947, ¶ 9

  Again, under amendment 20, section 1, of our Constitution, we find, in that amendment, the following language:

  The paragraph cites section 1 of the twentieth amendment by number and introduces its text, which is quoted in the next paragraph.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 6, 1947, ¶ 10

  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.

  The paragraph quotes Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment in full, introduced in the preceding paragraph as amendment 20, section 1.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, February 6, 1947 (2), ¶ 32

  …J a nuary and the · terms of Senators and R e presentatives at noon on the 3d · day of January of the year in which such terms should have ended if this article had not been ratified and the terms of their successors shall then begin.

  The paragraph gives the words of Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment, introduced in the preceding paragraph as what amendment No. 20 provided; this run of words is the section's own.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, February 17, 1932, ¶ 4

  The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 24th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 4th 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.

  The paragraph gives the words of section 1 of the House amendment; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, January 6, 1932 (2), ¶ 300

  The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 15th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 2d 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 "SEc.

  The paragraph gives the words of section 1 of the joint resolution as amended; this run of words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  Senate, March 2, 1932, ¶ 7

  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.

  The paragraph gives the words of section 1 as agreed in conference; they appear unchanged in Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment.