The Twentieth Day of January

This one is for Terry Kitson and John Sexton, with love.

THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE XX

(Proposed March 1932; Adopted February 1933)

SECTION I

The terms of the President and Vice-President shall end at noon on the twentieth day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the third 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.