History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1505 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Twentieth Amendment
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The idea
Four months separated Roosevelt's election from his inauguration in March nineteen thirty-three, a winter of renewed bank panics.
In practice
The Twentieth Amendment's text, ending presidential terms at noon on the twentieth day of January.
Where people slip
The National Archives dates it: passed by Congress March second, nineteen thirty-two, ratified January twenty-third, nineteen thirty-three, too late to shorten this winter.
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