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The Twentieth Amendment (Amendment XX) to the United States Constitution moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. It also has provisions that determine what is to be done when there is no president-elect. The Twentieth ...
“The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January,” according to the 20th Amendment. Trump will then give an inaugural address as the 47th ...
The 20th Amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1933, moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, thereby also shortening the transition period.
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.
Inauguration Day has officially been Jan. 20 (or Jan. 21 if the 20th falls on a Sunday) since 1937, after the 20th Amendment was passed, according to the National Archives. Prior to that ...
According to the 20th Amendment of the Constitution, the term for President and Vice President begin at noon on January 20 the year following a presidential election, meaning it will be a little ...
Additionally, on February 15, 1933, just 23 days after the Twentieth Amendment went into effect, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt in Miami, Florida. The amendment's provision moving inauguration day from March 4 to January 20, would not take effect until 1937, but its three provisions about a president ...
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 ...