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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.
In 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, limited by the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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:
If Kentucky voters approve Amendment 2 on Election Day, how would it change the commonwealth’s constitution? And what does it mean for education and school choice?