Twenty-second Amendment

Term Limits for the Presidency

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. 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 to the States by the Congress.

What does this mean?

The 22nd amendment provided term limits for the president. The president can not be elected twice. Jefferson had feared that the presidency would become a lifelong term.

Why this picture?

I decided to put a picture of the former President FDR because he served three terms and was serving his fourth when he passed away. The way he was able to do this is because he was not elected for all of those terms, he in a way found a loop hole in the 22nd amendment.