The Twenty-second Amendment was proposed on March 24, 1947, and ratified on February 27, 1951. The amendment imposed term limits on the office of president of the United States. The Framers of the Constitution vested power in a single executive, elected for a term of four years. Participant...
Compensation of Members of Congress: The Twenty-Seventh Amendment As one of the original proposals accompanying the Bill of Rights, and first proposed in 1789, the congressional pay raise amendment was included in order to limit the ability of Congress to change the compensation of its members. ...
The Twenty-sixth Amendment was proposed on March 23, 1971, and ratified on July 1, 1971. The ratification period of 107 days was the shortest in U.S. history. The amendment, which lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen, was passed quickly to avert potential problems in the ...
lease of the Liaotung peninsula (seeLiaoning) and of the Manchurian railroads and granting Kiaochow to Japan. The demands, setting a pattern for Japanese domination, were forced on China, but the treaties were not ratified by the Chinese legislature. The Japanese reinforced their claims in 1917...
The Twenty-fourth Amendment was proposed on August 27, 1962, and ratified on January 23, 1964. It prohibits the federal government or the states from making voters pay a poll tax before they can vote in a national election. A poll tax, also called a head tax, is a tax collected equally...
Under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, ratified in 1967, the Vice President "shall become President"--but only if the President is removed, resigns, or dies.(26) That is, only when a President permanently vacates office because of removal, resignation, or death does the Vice President actually be...
The Twenty-first Amendment was adopted when it was ratified by Utah, the 36th state to do so. 1933: Exploration and settlement; wars; government; civil rights; statistics Except for the Twenty-First Amendment, which repealed Prohibition, state legislatures ratified all the others. The origins ...
Twenty-seventh AmendmentPage three of the Twenty-seventh Amenmdent to the Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1992.(more) Twenty-seventh Amendment, amendment (1992) to the Constitution of the United States that required any change to the rate of compensation for members of the U.S...
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Twenty-second Amendment, amendment (1951) to the Constitution of the United States effectively limiting to two the number of terms a president of the United States may serve. It was one of 273 recommendations to the U.S. Congress by the Hoover Commission