United States Constitution Amendment 22

Section 1.

§ 1 ¶ 1 No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of the President, or acted as the 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 will not apply to any person holding the office of the 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 for the remainder of such term.

Section 2.

§ 2 ¶ 1 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 day of its submission to the States by the Congress.

[ 1 ] Passed by Congress March 24, 1947
[ 2 ] Ratified March 1, 1951

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