Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 1 — Election of Senators and Representatives
§ 1. Time for election of Senators
Statutory text
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.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 63–103 § 1 · 38 Stat. 384
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 1
June 4, 1914, ch. 103, § 1, 38 Stat. 384
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 4, 1914, ch. 103, § 1, 38 Stat. 384
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1934—Act , 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.
Credits
1914–1934 · 2 acts
- 1914June 4, 1914, ch. 103, § 1, 38 Stat. 384
- 1934June 5, 1934, ch. 390, § 3, 48 Stat. 879.
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(June 4, 1914, ch. 103, § 1, 38 Stat. 384; June 5, 1934, ch. 390, § 3, 48 Stat. 879.)