That amendment – nicknamed the "Lame Duck Amendment," according to the National Archives –was ratified in 1933 and moved up the inauguration and start of a new Congress. Before the 20th ...

Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The 20th Amendment to the Constitution is often called the “Lame Duck Amendment.” It shortened the time between the November election and ...

The country remained adrift during that economic crisis. In 1933, the 20th Amendment reduced the lame duck period, moving up the date of the inauguration of president and vice president from March 4 ...