U.S. Const. amend. XXII, § 2
- Constitution
- Constitution of the United States
- Text as of
- October 2026
What does this section say?
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.
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