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niyad

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15. 22d amendment to the constitution (I realize most of these cretins have never read it, but still. .)
Thu Nov 15, 2012, 11:13 PM
Nov 2012

Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution


Amendment XXII in the National Archives

The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for election to the office of President of the United States. The Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947. It was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 27, 1951.
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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

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