SECTION 3
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the
Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within
seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.]
COMMENTARY:
This is the prohibition amendment, which forbade people to make, sell, or transport liquor.
It was repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933.
Amendment 19
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
This amendment was proposed on June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote
shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
COMMENTARY:
Amendments that would have given women the right to vote were introduced in Congress
one after another for more than 40 years before this one was finally passed.
Amendment 20
TERMS OF THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS
This amendment was proposed on March 2,1932, and ratified on January 23, 1933.
SECTION 1
The terms of the President and 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 years in which such terms would have ended if this
article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.