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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.
In the context of the politics of the United States, term limits restrict the number of terms of office an officeholder may serve. At the federal level, the president of the United States can serve a maximum of two four-year terms, with this being limited by the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution that came into force on February 27, 1951.
No person can be elected as president of the United States more than twice, and a person who has served as president for more than two years of a term to which another person was elected president (i.e. due to the elected president's death, resignation, or removal by impeachment) cannot be elected president more than once in that person's own ...
The amendment states: “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 ...
The reason for this is that the 22nd Amendment only prohibits someone from being “elected” more than twice. It says nothing about someone becoming president in some other way than being ...
The 22nd Amendment says: "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 ...
President: Unlimited 5-year terms, since 1996 constitutional reform Ghana: President: Two 4-year terms, since 1992 constitutional referendum Guinea: President: No set terms (transitional) Guinea-Bissau: President: Two 5-year terms, as per the 1996 constitution reform Kenya: President: Two 5-year terms, since 2010 constitutional reform Deputy ...
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.