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Encyclopedia: Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for the President of the United States, providing that "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." Prior to the adoption of the amendment, the Constitution set no limit on the number of presidential terms. The United States Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947.^[1] It was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 27, 1951.

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22. Zusatzartikel zur Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten

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February 27

founded in Vienna. 1922 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution... to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified. 1961 - The first... discovered. 1793 - The Giles resolutions are introduced to the United States House of Representatives...

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1951

February 27 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to.... March 30 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau... United States, featuring President Truman. September 22 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to...

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Franklin Roosevelt. The convention was changed to formal law by the Twenty-second Amendment to the... constitutional convention rather than by a formal written constitution. In these states, the actual... to the head of state which in practice are used only on the advice of the head of government. Some...

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