The Constitution of the United States · Amend. XX, § 6

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.

United States · 1787 and amendments I–XXVII
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