The gap between election and inauguration is much shorter now than it used to be, thanks to the 20th Amendment of the Constitution. That amendment – nicknamed the "Lame Duck Amendment ...

As submitted to the States by Congress, the 20th Amendment would eliminate the short (“lame duck”) session of Congress which follows every biennial election. Each Congress, instead of waiting ...

In 1933, the states ratified the 20th Amendment, or the “Lame Duck” Amendment, to shorten the time between the election and the inauguration. Claire Jerry, curator of political history at the ...

and curtail “lame duck” Congresses in which members defeated in November served until March, legislators introduced the 20th ...