Here is the text of the 20th Amendment, Section 1 in full: "The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and ...

Studying the Constitution and Founding documents is time well-spent The last section of the 20th Amendment provided that the entire amendment (or article) would become inoperative unless ratified ...

But that long gap also left the country vulnerable and that leads us to the 20th Amendment of the Constitution, which says the terms of presidents and vice presidents will start midday on January 20.