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Amendment XVI (1913)The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes onincomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any censusof enumeration. Amendment XVII (1913)The Senate of the United States shall be composed of twoSenators from each state, elected by the people thereof, forsix years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electorsin each state shall have the qualifications requisite forelectors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures. When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in theSenate, the executive authority of such state shall issue writsof election to fill such vacancies: Provided, that thelegislature of any state may empower the executive thereofto make temporary

appointments until the people fill thevacancies by election as the legislature may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect theelection or term of any Senator chosen before it becomesvalid as part of the Constitution. Amendment XVIII (1919)Section 1. After one year from the ratification of thisarticle the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicatingliquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportationthereof from the United States and all territory subject to thejurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. Section 2. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrentpower to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shallhave been ratified as an

amendment to the Constitution by thelegislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution,within seven years from the date of the submission hereofto the states by the Congress. Amendment XIX (1920)The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall notbe denied or abridged by the United States or by any state onaccount of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article byappropriate legislation. Amendment XX (1933)Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shallend at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms ofSenators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January,of the years in which such terms would have ended if thisarticle had not been ratified; and the terms of theirsuccessors shall then begin. Section 2. The Congress

shall assemble at least once in everyyear, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day ofJanuary, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. Section 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the termof the President, the President elect shall have died, the VicePresident elect shall become President. If a President shall nothave been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of histerm, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify,then the Vice President elect shall act as President until aPresident shall have qualified; and the Congress may by lawprovide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor aVice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shallthen act as President, or the manner in which one who is to actshall be selected,

and such person shall act accordingly untila President or Vice President shall have qualified. Section 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of thedeath of any of the persons from whom the House of Representativesmay choose a President whenever the right of choice shall havedevolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of thepersons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President wheneverthe right of choice shall have devolved upon them. Section 5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th dayof October following the ratification of this article. Section 6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shallhave been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by thelegislatures of three-fourths of the several states withinseven years from the date of

its submission. Amendment XXI (1933)Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to theConstitution 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 oruse therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the lawsthereof, is hereby prohibited. Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shallhave been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution byconventions in the several states, as provided in theConstitution, within seven years from the date of thesubmission hereof to the states by the Congress. Amendment XXII (1951)Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of thePresident more than twice, and no person who has held theoffice of President, or