Section 1 specifically says that “The terms of the President and the 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.” Prior to theTwentieth Amendment,these dates were set for March 4. ...
Despite the arrival of the 200th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, significant judicial interpretation of the First Amendment's freedom of speech dates back only to around 1920. During a period ending merely fifty years later, legal doctrine for the protection ofIngber, ...
on the 4th of June, 1919, and was declared, in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated the 26th of August, 1920, to have been ratified by the legislatures of 36 of the 48 States. The dates of ratification were: Illinois
Today is a landmark day not only for New Hampshire but for the United States–the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. By a vote of 50-47, Tennessee became the last state needed to …Continue reading→ ...
Accordingly the Court consulted the State journals to determine the dates on which each house of the legislature of certain States ratified the Eighteenth Amendment. It, therefore, follows that the date on which the governor approved the ratification, or the date on which the secretary of state ...
everyone's playing on "originalist" turf. Originalism as applied, and the notion of interpreting constitutional text based on the commonly understood meaning of the terms at the time of ratification, could not be more different in this case. ...
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BOSTON (AP) — Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment have filed a federal lawsuit in Massachusetts aimed at clearing a legal path for adoption of the long-delayed constitutional amendment. Backers say they’re wading into the debate over the amendment — which dates to the early 1970s — ...
Twentieth Amendment, amendment (1933) to the Constitution of the United States indicating the beginning and ending dates of presidential and congressional terms. It was proposed by Sen. George W. Norris of Nebraska on March, 2, 1932, and was certified th
The delay was partly because Republicans formulated the constitutional amendment as a partisan response toPresident Franklin Roosevelt’sfour successive presidential terms. Dates of Proposal and Ratification for 22nd Amendment Passed by Congress on March 21, 1947. Ratified February 27, 1951....