Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution

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The Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) to the United States Constitution limits the number of times a person may be elected to the office of President of the United States to two, and sets additional eligibility conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors. Congress approved the Twenty-second Amendment on March 21, 1947, and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification. That process was completed on February 27, 1951, when the requisite 36 of the 48 states had ratified the amendment (neither Alaska nor Hawaii had yet been admitted as a state), and its provisions came into force on that date. The amendment prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected to the office again. Under the amendment, someone who fills more than 2 years of an unexpired presidential term is also prohibited from being elected president more than once. Scholars debate whether the amendment prohibits affected individuals from succeeding...

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