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U.S. Code, Title 2, the Congress
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General SummaryThe U.S. Code is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. While every effort has been made to ensure that this reproduction of the Code is accurate, those using it for legal purposes should verify their results against the printed version of the Code available through the Government Printing Office.
§ 1. Time for Election of Senators
At the regular election held in any State next preceding the expiration of the term for which any Senator was elected to represent such State in Congress, at which election a Representative to Congress is regularly by law to be chosen, a United States Senator from said State shall be elected by the people thereof for the term commencing on the 3d day of January next thereafter.
(June 4, 1914, ch. 103, § 1, 38 Stat. 384; June 5, 1934, ch. 390, § 3, 48 Stat. 879.)
1934—Act June 5, 1934, substituted "3d day of January" for "fourth day of March".
Constitutional Provisions
The first section of Amendment XX to the Constitution provides in part: "* * * the terms of Senators and Representatives [shall end] at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin."
Time for election of Senators, see Const. Art. I, § 4, cl. 1.
Vacancies in the Senate, see Const. Amend. XVII.
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Chicago: "U.S. Congress, Office of the Law Revision Counsel", "§ 1. Time for Election of Senators," U.S. Code, Title 2, the Congress in U.S. Code, Title 2, the Congress (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2002), Original Sources, accessed May 13, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D9KSTFI7IP84WWB.
MLA: "U.S. Congress, Office of the Law Revision Counsel". "§ 1. Time for Election of Senators." U.S. Code, Title 2, the Congress, in U.S. Code, Title 2, the Congress, Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 2002, Original Sources. 13 May. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D9KSTFI7IP84WWB.
Harvard: "U.S. Congress, Office of the Law Revision Counsel", '§ 1. Time for Election of Senators' in U.S. Code, Title 2, the Congress. cited in 2002, U.S. Code, Title 2, the Congress, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.. Original Sources, retrieved 13 May 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D9KSTFI7IP84WWB.
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