| Amendment XX |
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| 1. The terms of the President and 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, of the years in which such terms would have ended if |
| this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall |
| then begin. |
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| 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting |
| shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law |
| appoint a different day. |
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| 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the |
| President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become |
| President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed |
| for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to |
| qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a |
| President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the |
| case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have |
| qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which |
| one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly |
| until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. |
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| 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the |
| persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President |
| whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case |
| of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice |
| President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them. |
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| 5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following |
| the ratification of this article. |
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| 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. |
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