第三款 本条限非在国会将其提交各州之日起七年以内，由各州修宪会议依照本宪法规定批准为宪法修正案，否则不发生效力。

• Section 3.This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States,as provided in the Constitution,within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.