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  2. Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The first Congress to open its first session and begin its members' terms on the new date was the 74th Congress in 1935. The first presidential and vice presidential terms to begin on the date appointed by the Twentieth Amendment were the second terms of President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner, on January 20, 1937. As Section 1 had ...

  3. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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    That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. [ 4 ] Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process.

  4. A balanced budget amendment, in which Congress and the President are forced to balance the budget every year, has been introduced many times, [44] dating back to the 1930s. [45] No measure passed either body of Congress until 1982, when the Senate took 11 days to consider it and gained the necessary two-thirds majority. [45]

  5. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US - AOL

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    1866 – The 14th Amendment is passed by Congress, with "citizens" and "voters" defined as "male" in the Constitution. 1869 – Arabella Mansfield is granted admission to practice law in Iowa ...

  6. Lame-duck session - Wikipedia

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    The possibility of a lame-duck session of Congress in the modern sense began in 1935 when the 20th Amendment to the Constitution took effect. Under this amendment, ratified in 1933, Congress meets in a regular session on January 3 of each year, unless in the previous session it passes a law changing the date.

  7. Trump Inauguration 2025: Read the Updates - AOL

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    In 1933, the 20th Amendment was ratified, moving Inauguration Day up to Jan. 20. The first President to be sworn into office in January was Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. It was the second of his ...

  8. When did women gain the right to vote? The history of the ...

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    19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...

  9. Twentieth Amendment - Wikipedia

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    The Twentieth Amendment may refer to the: Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1933), established some details of presidential succession and of the beginning and ending of the terms of elected federal officials; Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India (1966), relating to the appointment of judiciary