Amend. XX, § 5
Effective date of Sections 1 and 2
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Amending & Ratifying
Amend. XI–XXVII · Later Amendments
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Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the of this article.
Proposal and ratification: The twentieth amendment to the Constitution was proposed to the legislatures of the several states by the Seventy-Second Congress, on the 2d day of March, 1932, and was declared, in a proclamation by the Secretary of State, dated on the 6th day of February, 1933, to have been ratified by the legislatures of 36 of the 48 States. was completed on January 23, 1933.
Simplified explanation
Sections 1 and 2 of this article take effect on the 15th day of October following its ratification.