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Virginia's George Mason denounced the life-tenure proposal as tantamount to elective monarchy. [4] An early draft of the U.S. Constitution provided that the president was restricted to one seven-year term. [5] Ultimately, the Framers approved four-year terms with no restriction on how many times a person could be elected president.
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 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 person is chosen to stay at an undisclosed secure location, away from such events such as State of the Union addresses and presidential inaugurations. The designation of a survivor is intended to prevent the decapitation of the government and to safeguard continuity in the presidency if the president, the vice president, and others in the ...
In its nearly 250-year history, only one woman — Harris — has been vice president. None has been president. Globally, 175 women in 87 other countries have been heads of state .
But when I called her recently to ask if she ever thought she would see a woman President in her lifetime, she paused before answering: "No." My grandma was born roughly 10 years after women got ...
The amendment bars anyone from being elected president more than twice, or once if that person served more than two years (24 months) of another president's four-year term. Harry S. Truman, the president at the time it was submitted to the states by the Congress, was exempted from its limitations. Without the exemption, he would not have been ...
On November 16, 2010, Texas state representative Leo Berman introduced legislation requiring any candidate for president or vice president running in Texas to submit to the Texas Secretary of State an "original birth certificate indicating that the person is a natural-born United States citizen." In introducing the bill, Berman said that the ...