Amendment XXI
(1933)
Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment 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hereby repealed.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 intoxicating 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 the submission hereof to the states by the Congress.
Amendment XXII
(1951)
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no
person 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 the Congress, and shall not prevent any
person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term
within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as
President during the remainder of such term.
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.
Amendment XXIII
(1961)
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 District 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 purposes of the election of President and Vice
President, 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.
Amendment XXIV
(1964)
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
Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state
by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Amendment XXV
(1967)
Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of 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 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 written declaration that he is unable to
discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits 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
written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his
office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers 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 written 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 provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and
the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is
unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the
issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress,
within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in
session, within twenty-one 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 President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting
President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Amendment XXVI
(1971)
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to
vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Amendment XXVII
(1992)
No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall
take effect until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.