22nd Amendment | What is the Twenty-Second Amendment?
The Twenty-Second Amendment in the Constitution limits presidential terms.
Read the Additional AmendmentsTwenty-Second Amendment
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.
Twenty-Second Amendment Background Essay
View the history of presidential terms and why presidential terms limits were put in place.
The Twenty-Second Amendment Primary Source
The text of the Twenty-Second Amendment followed by corresponding comprehension questions.
Debate on the Twenty-Second Amendment
Selections from the debate from a Democratic and a Republic representative followed by corresponding comprehension questions.