2016 US Code
Title 2 - The Congress
Chapter 1 - Election of Senators and Representatives
Sec. 1 - Time for election of Senators
| 2 U.S.C. § 1 (2016) |
| §1. Time for election of Senators |
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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. |
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(June 4, 1914, ch. 103, §1, 38 Stat. 384; June 5, 1934, ch. 390, §3, 48 Stat. 879.) |
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AMENDMENTS
1934—Act June 5, 1934, substituted "3d day of January" for "fourth day of March". CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONSThe 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. |
| United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 4, Title 2 - THE CONGRESS |
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| Title 2 - THE CONGRESS CHAPTER 1 - ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES Sec. 1 - Time for election of Senators |
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| 38 Stat. 384 48 Stat. 879 |
