The Constitution of the United States: Amendment 22 (Twenty-Second Amendment)
Amendment XXII. (Presidential Term Limits)
Passed by Congress March 21, 1947. Ratified 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 President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by 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.
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- The Constitution of the United States: Amendments 11-27, from The National Archives
- Twenty-second Amendment – CRS Annotated Constitution
- Twenty-second Amendment – Wikipedia
- Twenty-second Amendment – Findlaw
- Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, Govinfo.gov
- Terms of Congress
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- Election Capitol Hill Workshop
- Mid-Term Election (CongressionalGlossary.com)
- “7 stages of the office seeker“
- Vice President (CongressionalGlossary.com)
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- President Pro Tempore (CongressionalGlossary.com)
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- Chapter 8.P. Presidential Succession in Congressional Procedure
- “The First Day of a New Congress: A Guide to Proceedings on the Senate Floor,” CRS Report RS20722 (14-page PDF
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- “The President-Elect: Succession and Disability Issues During the Transition Period,” CRS Report RS22992 (8-page PDF)
- “Continuity of Operations (COOP) in the Executive Branch: Issues in the 109th Congress,” CRS Report RL32752 (26-page PDF)
- “The Unconstitutionality of State Congressional Term Limits,” CRS Report 95-646 (3-page PDF)
- “Term Limits for Members of Congress: State Activity,” CRS Report 96-152 (8-page PDF)
- “Presidential and Vice Presidential Terms and Tenure,” CRS Report RS20827 (8-page PDF)
- Presidential Term Limit – Heritage Guide to the Constitution
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