Section 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.

• 第六款 本条除非在其提交各州之日起七年以内，由四分之三的州议会批准为宪法修正案，否则不发生效力。