US Constitution
of 1787
22nd
Amendment
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US
Constitution Amendment
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Proposal Date
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Enacted Date
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22nd
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Limits the number of times that a person can be elected
president: a person cannot be elected president more than twice, and a person
who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was
elected cannot be elected more than once - Signers: Speaker of the House
Joseph W. Martin, Jr. & US Senator William F. Knowland (R-CA)
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March 24, 1947
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February 27,1951
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The Twenty-second
Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for election to
the office of President of the United States. Congress passed the amendment on
March 21, 1947. It was ratified by the requisite number of states on February
27, 1951.
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.
Exhibited here is a
printed, in brown ink, XXII Amendment’s Section one stating "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." Signed Joseph W. Martin, Jr,
Speaker
of the House, February 27th, 1951
Time Magazine March 5, 1951, reporting on the 22nd Amendment’s ratification:
Time Magazine March 5, 1951, reporting on the 22nd Amendment’s ratification:
The US has a new amendment to the Constitution. Last week three more state legislatures
approved the anti-third-term proposal, bringing to 34 the total states to
ratify it. This week Utah and Nevada
became the 35th and 36th and wrote the 22nd Amendment into law.
A reflection in a sense on the judgment of
future generations. The amendment will
not restrict Harry Truman's right to run for a third term (although it might
conceivably give the President pause).
But beginning with Mr. Truman's successor, it will allow no man to sit
in the White House for more than two full terms, or, if he happens to come
through the vice-presidency for a partial term, for more than ten years -- not
even if the majority of the U.S. wants him there. The nation could, of course, repeal the
amendment if it ever wanted another third-term President badly enough.
Since 1951 there been
several have attempts by members of Congress to repeal the 22nd
Amendment but these efforts have failed even to get out of committee.
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