Notes on 2 U.S.C. § 1 : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on 2 U.S.C. § 1 : US Code - Notes

(June 4, 1914, ch. 103, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 384; June 5, 1934, ch.
390, Sec. 3, 48 Stat. 879.)
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, Sec. 4, cl. 1.
Vacancies in the Senate, see Const. Amend. XVII.