Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The 20th Amendment to the Constitution is often called the “Lame Duck Amendment.” It shortened the time between the November election and ...

Section 1. The terms of the President and the 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 ...

Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN-5), has filed a Joint Resolution in Congress proposing a change to the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that limits presidents to two terms. Ogles wants to ...

after the 20th Amendment was passed, according to the National Archives. Prior to that, Inauguration Day took place on March 4 or 5 (if the 4th fell on a weekend). The first-ever presidential ...

In doing so, he became the first president to be inaugurated in January, thanks to the 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution. When the Constitution was ratified in 1788, the ...