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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 ...
Ratification period ended August 22, 1985; amendment failed. ^ Between 1972 and 1977, 35 states ratified the ERA. Three additional states ratified it between 2017 and 2020, purportedly bringing the number of ratifications to 38, or three-fourths of the states.
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.
FDR’s four terms in office helped inspire the 22nd Amendment in the first place. The amendment, ratified in 1951, came after Roosevelt had been elected four consecutive times, from 1932 to 1944.
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.
The Twelfth Amendment was proposed by the 8th Congress on December 9, 1803, when it was approved by the House of Representatives by vote of 84–42, [16] having been previously passed by the Senate, 22–10, on December 2. [17] The amendment was officially submitted to the 17 states on December 12, 1803, and was ratified by the legislatures of ...
More specifically, the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidents to two terms, is likely to hold. And no attempt to amend the Constitution to eliminate it is likely to succeed. So the second Trump ...
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: