Amdt20.S6.1 Ratification of Twentieth Amendment
Twentieth Amendment, Section 6:
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.
The Twentieth Amendment was proposed by Congress on March 2, 1932, when it passed the Senate1 , having previously passed the House on March 1.2 It appears officially in 47 Stat. 745. Ratification was completed on January 23, 1933, when the thirty-sixth state approved the amendment, there being then forty-eight states in the Union. On February 6, 1933, Secretary of State Stimson certified that it had become a part of the Constitution.3
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Footnotes
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- Cong. Rec. (72d Cong., 1st Sess.) 5086
- 2
- Id. at 5027
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- 47 Stat. 2569