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Show The Case For the 20th Amendment The importance of getting the "lame duck" amendment ratified is amply illustrated by the present congressional This fall the nation will elect a new Congress. Every member of the House of Representatives and a third of the members of the Senate must submit their candidacies to the voters. But under the existing law, the newly-elected Congress Con-gress will not convene until Jan. 3, 1934, unless a special session ses-sion is called next spring. Suppose, for the sake of argument, that some crisis were upon us demanding speedy action; and suppose that the voters emphatically disavowed the policy of the present Congress Con-gress and elected one of an entirely different temper. We should have to wait for more than a year before the people's will could find expression in the national capitol. Could anything make clearer the worth of the 20th amendment? |