The Twenty-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."


The Twenty-second Amendment sets up the two-term rule for the President. It had always been an un-written rule to only stay in office for two-terms ever since George Washington said it was as long as any President needed. Not until FDR did a President stay in the office for more than two-terms. This Amendment was a reaction by the Republican party to keep a Democrat from ever serving more than two-terms again.

This is a campaign button that to me is slightly laughing at the fact that FDR won the Presidential race four times. I actually think that having a steady Presidency through WWII contributed a lot to Americas success in that war and afterwards. I wonder how many people would want the 22nd Amendment repealed if we were in a time of war and were happy with the Presidency.

This is a picture of a newspaper article that I am glad did not come true. Im guessing that he was trying to do this before the Watergate scandal, because it certainly wasn't afterwards.