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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 ...
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.
Though some supporters have voiced interest in the idea of Trump serving an additional term beyond the two-term limit, any efforts to repeal or modify the 22nd Amendment would require an extensive ...
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.
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.
The President must be a natural born citizen, at least 35 years of age and must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years. ... For that to change, the 22nd Amendment would need to be ...
The 22nd Amendment doesn't allow a president to serve a third term either consecutively or separate, and one termers can be elected once more. The 12th Amendment doesn't allow anyone who is not eigible to be president cannot be vice president, it was ratified on June 15, 1804 almost a century and a half earlier (146 years, 257 days) earlier to ...