Twentieth Amendment

noun

1. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1933, that abolished the December to March session of those Congressmen defeated for reelection in November.

Example Sentences

“With a stalled and incomplete count because of a standoff between Pence and Pelosi,” the legal scholar Ned Foley writes in a separate Election Law Blog post, “the Twentieth Amendment becomes the relevant constitutional provision.”

From New York Times

"The president-elect, by dint of the explicit command of the Twentieth Amendment, legally becomes president at the precise stroke of noon on January 20," writes Professor Akhil Reed Amar in his book America's Unwritten Constitution.

From BBC

Should the President-elect and Vice President-elect both die before taking office, the outgoing Secretary of State would temporarily assume the Presidency until Congress, invested with such powers by the Twentieth Amendment, selected a President and Vice President either by a vote of both Houses or by recalling the electoral college to make another choice.�ED.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is to be the Twentieth Amendment.

From Project Gutenberg