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Constitution of the United States/Twentieth Amend./Section 2 Meetings of Congress
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Twentieth Amendment Presidential Term and Succession
Section 2 Meetings of Congress
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The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. |
Date When Congress Shall Meet[edit | edit source]
Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment superseded Clause 2 of Section 4 of Article I.[1] Setting an exact hour for Congress to meet recognized Congress's long practice, which it enacted into permanent law for the first time in 1867[2] but repealed in 1871.[3] When January 3 fell on Sunday (in 1937), Congress appointed a different day by law to assemble.[4]
- ↑ See Art. I, Sec. 4, Cl. 2: When Congress Shall Assemble.
- ↑ Ch. 10, 14 Stat. 378.
- ↑ Ch. 21, § 30, 17 Stat. 12. See 1 Asher C. Hind, Precedents of the House of Representatives § 11 (1907).
- ↑ Ch. 713, 49 Stat. 1826.