UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION                        427


  SECTION 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year,
and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless
they shall by law appoint a different day.
  SE.cTioN 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the
President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect
shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen be-
fore the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President
elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act
as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress
may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a
Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as
President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected,
and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President
shall have qualified.
  SECTIoNN 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death
of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may
choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved
upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from
whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of
choice shall have devolved upon them.
  SECTION 5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of Octo-
ber following the ratification of this article.
  SE-cTioN 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.

                            ARTICLE XXI

  SECTION 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution
of the United States is hereby repealed.
  SECTION 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Terri-
tory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of
intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibted.
  SEcTIoN 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been
ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the sev-
eral States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the
date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.



PENDING AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF
                     THE UNITED STATES

                     CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT

  SECTION 1. The Congress shall have power to limit, regulate, and pro-
hibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age.
  SEcTION" 2. The power of the several States is unimpaired by this
arti-
cle except that the operation of State laws shall be suspended to the ex-
tent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the Congress.