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The amendment was a response to the four-term presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, which amplified longstanding debates over term limits.. The Twenty-second Amendment was a reaction to Franklin D. Roosevelt's election to an unprecedented four terms as president, but presidential term limits had long been debated in American politics.
A repeal of the Twenty-second Amendment would eliminate term limits for presidents. Presidents Harry S. Truman, [24] Ronald Reagan, [25] Bill Clinton, [26] and Donald Trump [27] all expressed support for some sort of repeal. The first efforts in Congress to repeal the 22nd Amendment were undertaken in 1956, only five years after its ratification.
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 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.
The resolution would amend the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidents to two terms. ... That rules out Obama, who served as president from 2009-2017, as well as Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
José Enrique Serrano (born October 24, 1943) is an American politician who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1990 until his retirement in 2021. Serrano, a Democrat from New York, represented a district that is one of the smallest in the country geographically, consisting of a few square miles of the heavily populated South Bronx in New York City.
Seth Meyers is worried about more than just Donald Trump’s second term. “Well, Donald Trump has won the 2024 election and he’ll be president again for four more years, or eight, or 12, or ...
The 22nd Amendment was passed in 1947 and ratified in 1951, after Roosevelt's four-term presidency. Related: Liz Cheney Calls on Americans to Be ‘Guardrails of Democracy’ After Donald Trump ...