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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 ...
According to the White House Historical Association, the 20th Amendment is also sometimes called the “lame duck" amendment, as its author, Nebraska Sen. George Norris, sought to tackle the issue ...
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
The first test that demonstrated disunity among Democratic legislators in the lame-duck Congress was a December 5 vote on an amendment of the United States Constitution that would repeal the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The proposed amendment fell six votes short of congressional approval.
The Electoral College ensures that even the most sparsely populated states have an effect on the final result (Wyoming, Vermont, and Alaska come in at the three least populous US states ...
The 12th Amendment says that in that case, the House of Representatives elects the president and the Senate elects the vice president. ... Then the 20th Amendment takes over. ... Vision 2020 is a ...
Public sympathy and support for the freedom riders led John F. Kennedy's administration to order the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to issue a new desegregation order. When the new ICC rule took effect on November 1, 1961, passengers were permitted to sit wherever they chose on the bus; "white" and "colored" signs came down in the ...
In 1821, the state of New York held a constitutional convention which removed property requirements for white male voters, but required that "persons of colour" own $250 worth of property, "over and above all debts," in order to vote. White male voters were instead required to pay a tax, but this rule was abolished in an amendment of 1826.