Editorial Notes
Amendments
1934—Act June 5, 1934, substituted “3d day of January” for “fourth day of March”.
Constitutional Provisions
The first section of Amendment XX to the Constitution provides in part: “* * * the terms of Senators and Representatives [shall end] 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.”
Time for election of Senators, see Const. Art. I, § 4, cl. 1.
Vacancies in the Senate, see Const. Amend. XVII.