U.S. Constitution - Amendments 21 to 27
Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the
Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
Section 2. The transportation or importation into any
state, territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or
use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof,
is hereby prohibited.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it
shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by
conventions in the several states, as provided in the Constitution,
within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the
states by the Congress.
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of
the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office
of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term
to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to
the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not
apply to any person holding the office of President when this article
was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may
be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the
term within which this article becomes operative from holding the
office of President or acting as President during the remainder of
such term.
Section 2. 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 to the states by the Congress.
Section 1. The District constituting the seat of
government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the
Congress may direct:
A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the
whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the
District would be entitled if it were a state, but in no event more
than the least populous state; they shall be in addition to those
appointed by the states, but they shall be considered, for the
purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be
electors appointed by a state; and they shall meet in the District and
perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of
amendment.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this
article by appropriate legislation.
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to
vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President,
for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or
Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or
other tax.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this
article by appropriate legislation.
Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from
office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become
President.
Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of
the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who
shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses
of Congress.
Section 3. Whenever the President transmits to the
President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge
the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a
written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be
discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of
either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such
other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President
pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable
to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President
shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting
President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro
tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives
his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the
powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a
majority of either the principal officers of the executive department
or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within
four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker
of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the
President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his
office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within
forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress,
within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written
declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days
after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote
of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers
and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to
discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall
resume the powers and duties of his office.
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States,
who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or any state on account of age.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce
this article by appropriate legislation.
No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators
and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of
Representatives shall have intervened.
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