Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Natalie, although only directly mentioned in the 12th amendment of the US Constitution, Inauguration Day for US presidents and new members of Congress [laughs] was originally established as March 4th.

To lessen the length of the transition period from Election Day, the 20th Amendment was passed in 1933, which moved the beginning of terms of members of Congress from March 4th to January 3rd, and presidents and vice presidents from March 4th to what date?

January 20.

That is absolutely correct.

Now, that would've been cool if Tata Airlines was bought out by Hooters.

1933, the 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect, so that made the presidential term start in January 20th instead of on March 4th, and it had Congress start on January 3rd instead of March 4th.

Yeah, they wanted to get rid of that long lame duck time.

1976, for the first time, they held a vice presidential debate.

There are, after all, three judges who were impeached by the House, were then tried by the Senate in a subsequent Congress, one of them as recently as nineteen eighty-nine.

And the only argument that, uh, that Professor Ackerman or anybody could make about these instances, uh, is that they haven't really focused on the impact, as he says, of the Twentieth Amendment.

Uh, well, I've focused on the impact of the Twentieth Amendment.

It's got nothing to do with it.

It shortens the lame duck period, but it certainly-

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the 20th Amendment.

Now is that, is it, you've got a g- a great body, fair play.

But i- are you using it for anything? Are you, is it, or is it-

Yeah.

Prohibition formally ends 1933, probably-

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