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[27] [28] Others contend that the original intent of the 12th Amendment concerns qualification for service (age, residence, and citizenship), while the 22nd Amendment concerns qualifications for election, and thus a former two-term president is still eligible to serve as vice president. Neither amendment restricts the number of times someone ...
Democrats in Congress have proposed a measure to clarify that the 22nd Amendment expressly forbids a third term in office, and 78-year-old Trump, soon to be the oldest president in history, has at ...
The only other president to do so was Grover Cleveland, the 22nd U.S. president. He served from 1885 to 1889 and then leap-frogged to serve again as 25th president from 1893 to 1897.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., plans to file a resolution in the House on Thursday that would express support for the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution, which sets the term limits for ...
Then, upon being properly ratified, the archivist issues a certificate proclaiming that an amendment has become an operative part of the Constitution. [ 3 ] Since the early 20th century, Congress has, on several occasions, stipulated that an amendment must be ratified by the required number of states within seven years from the date of its ...
The United States Constitution and its amendments comprise hundreds of clauses which outline the functioning of the United States Federal Government, the political relationship between the states and the national government, and affect how the United States federal court system interprets the law. When a particular clause becomes an important ...
The limitation is rooted in the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which restricts any president from serving more than two terms in office. This is the case even with non-consecutive terms ...
Soon after the amendment's adoption by ballot measure at the general election on November 3, 1992, Bobbie Hill, a member of the League of Women Voters, sued in state court to have it invalidated. She alleged that the amendment amounted to an unwarranted expansion of the qualifications for membership in Congress enumerated in the U.S. Constitution: