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SECTION 5 The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provision of this article.

Article XV*

SECTION 1 The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

SECTION 2 The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Article XVIt

The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever sourced

*Adopted in 1870. tAdopted in 1913.

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derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

Article XVH*

The Senate of the United States shall be com- posed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for elect- ors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. The amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.

Article XV11IT

SECTION 1 After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transpor- tation of intoxicating liquors within, the importa- tion thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof - for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

*Adopted in 1913. TAdopted in 1919. Repealed by the 21st Amendment.

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SECTION 2 The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

SECTION 3 This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the sev- eral States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

Article X1X* The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Article XXt

SECTION 1 The term of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of Janu- ary, and the terms of Senators and Representa- tives at noon on the 3rd day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this arti- cle had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.

SECTION 2 , Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at

noon on the 3rd day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.

*Adopted in 1920. TAdopted in 1933.

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SECTION 3 If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall be- come President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time. fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified: and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice Presi- dent elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

SECTION 4 The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.

SECTION 5 Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.

SECTION 6 This article shall be inoperative un- less it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.

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Article XXI*

SECTION 1 The Eighteenth Article of Amend- ment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2 The transportation or importation into any State, Territory or Possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxi- cating liquors in violation of the laws thereof is hereby prohibited.

SECTION 3 This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

Article XMIT

SECTION 1 No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no per- son who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person wAs elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which the Article becomes operative

from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

*Adopted in 1933. TAdopted in 1951.

SECTION 2 This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three- fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

Article XXH1*

SECTION 1 The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the Dis- trict would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the pur- pose of the election of President and Vice Presi- dent, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.

SECTION 2 The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Article XXIV t

SECTION 1 The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or

*Adopted in 1961. TAdopted in 1964.

Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by rea- son of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

SECTION 2 The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Article XXV*

SECTION 1 In case of the removal of the Presi- dent from office or his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become-President.

SECTION 2 Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take the Office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both houses of Congress.

SECTION 3 Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his writ- ten declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he trans- mits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.

SECTION 4 Whenever the Vice President and a majority of -either the principal officers of the executive departments, or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the

Speaker of the House of Representatives their

*Adopted in 1967.

written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the pow- ers and duties of the office as Acting President. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his writ- ten declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department, or of such other body as Congress may by law pro- vide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declara- tion that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Con- gress shall decide the issue, assembling within 48 hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Con- gress, within 21 days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in ses- sion, within 21 days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice Presi- dent shall continue to discharge the same as Act- Ing President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

Article XXVI*

SECTION 1 The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age, or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

*Adopted in 19 7 1.

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SECTION 2 The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Article XXVH*

*Proposed to States for ratification 22 March 1972, with ter- minal date 22 March 1979. Extension of 3 years and 3 months granted 6 October 1978. Amendment failed of ratification 30 June 1982 and became dead as of that date.

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