This question has been on my mind for quite some time, and today I decided to find the answer. If I had a question about this topic, I’d bet a lot of people were wondering the same thing. I wanted to know if, after you were the President of the United States for one term, and you did not win a second term, could you run for another term at another time. Here is the answer I found on the internet:
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.
On February 27, 1951, Minnesota became the 36th state to approve the proposed constitutional change, pushing the 22nd Amendment over the three-quarters threshold needed for it to be ratified. The approval process started nearly four years earlier, when a Republican-controlled Congress championed the amendment after Franklin D. Roosevelt won four consecutive terms in the White House. “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,” the amendment read. Since 1951, some members of Congress have introduced efforts to repeal the 22nd Amendment, but they haven’t made it out of committee. Hence, the 22nd Amendment was ratified, limiting the number of terms served by the President. The move ended a controversy over Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four elected terms to the White House.
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