The Twenty-Second Amendment

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. But this Article shall not 
apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was 
proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be 
holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within 
which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or 
acting as President during the remainder of such term.
SECTION 2
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment 
to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within 
seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
The Twenty-Second Amendment limited presidential term limits to two term limits or eight years. This was ratified 
in fear of an overpowering president being elected. In the past presidents usually stayed in office for typically two 
terms as George Washington did, however just a few years prior to ratification, President Franklin Roosevelt was 
elected to four terms. 

This illustration is humorous as it compares the two presidential terms of George Washing to the four terms of Franklin Roosevelt. 
As Washington established a precedent of retiring after two terms, Roosevelt was the first and last president to hold four 
presidential terms in office. The twenty second amendment limited terms to two after the death of Roosevelt.
This article explains the events leading up to the ratification of the twenty second amendment. It focuses on Roosevelt’s third 
reelection and fourth presidential term and how it led up to the passing of the twenty second amendment by a Republican 
Congress to prevent this event from happening again. 

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