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U.S. Constitution, 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.

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Limits the Twentieth Amendment's effect by making it inoperative unless 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. Ratification had to come from state legislatures within that deadline.

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Lexinter.net | U.S. Const. amend. XX, § 6 | https://laws.lexinter.net/constitution/us/amendment-20/section-6

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