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the 20th amendment changed the date of the inauguration from march 4 to January 20
Each inauguration takes place every 4 years on January 20. The original inauguration date was March __, but the __ Amendment changed this in ___.
The twentieth amendment was ratified in 1933.
The 20th Amendment madethe 20th of January Inauguration Day.
The 20th Amendment madethe 20th of January Inauguration Day.
This amendment changed the date of the inauguration to an earlier date. The purpose was to eliminate the time a lame duck president would be able to stay in office.
The 20th Amendment
The 20th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, ratified in January, 1933, changed Inauguration Day from March 4 to January 20 and changed the beginning/end of Senate and House terms from March 4 to January 3. The first inauguration to take place on January 20 was Franklin Roosevelt's second, in 1937.
The 20th amendment.
The president of the United States stopped taking office in March with the ratification of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution in 1933. Before that, the presidential inauguration used to take place on March 4th. The 20th Amendment changed the inauguration date to January 20th.
The 20th Amendment to the US Constitution changed the inauguration date from 4 March to 20 January. FDR, for his second term, was the first US President to be inaugurated on the 20th of January.
The 20th amendment changed the president's inauguration from March 4th to January 20th. This way, after the election in November, the U.S wasn't waiting as long for the new president to take office.