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...Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President in office at the time this amendment takes effect shall end at noon on the third Monday in January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives then in office at noon on the first Monday in January of the year in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified, and the terms of their successors shall then begin...
...Section 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year and such meetings shall be on the first Monday in January, unless they shall by law appoint a different...
...Section 3. If the House of Representatives has not chosen a President, whenever the right of choice devolves upon them, before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, then the Vice President, chosen for the same term shall act as President until the House of Representatives chooses a President; and the Congress shall by law provide, in the event the Vice President has not been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, what officer shall act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the House of Representatives chooses a President, or until...
...Section 4. This amendment shall take effect on the 15th day of October after its ratification...
...steel may strike the flint many times before a spark ignites the tinder. Two hundred and fifty-one times in the past year, by actual count, the immigration section of the Department of Labor had denied admission to the U. S. to persons ineligible according to law -to persons who admitted having committed a crime or misdemeanor involving "moral turpitude."* On the 252nd time the tinder went up in lurid flames...