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Show The Twentieth Amendment The twentieth aniondnuiiil is aUml, to ho added to the Constitution of the United Slates, and if you aren't familiar with its provisions it would pay you to imu out something uhutit it. It is commonly called the "lame duck" amendment. It would do away with governmental machinery that was devised de-vised Tor an age of stage-coaches and horse-drawn canal barges, and it would bring things at Washington up to date. First of all, it would move the presidential inauguration :t head from March 4 to early in January. More important, it would similarly move ahead the date on which a newly-;lected newly-;lected Congress takes office thereby doing away with the scandalous "lame duck" sessions, in which congressmen, whose constituent have turned them down still have power1 to make laws. It would end the possibility of filibusters in Congress, and it would make the government vastly more responsive to the will of the electorate. Thirty-six state legislatures must ratify it if it is to carry, car-ry, Not one valid reason can be advanced against it; many weighty reasons can be put forward in its favor. It ought to lie ratified without delay. |