Twentieth Amendment, Section 6 — Ratification
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.
Amdt20.S6.1 Ratification of Twentieth Amendment
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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