Amendment XXII:
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.
Many of us millennials was rooting for President Barack Obama to be president again...guess what it will never happen! This amendment puts that law in place that no president can run for a third term. Also if someone acted as president two or more years is considered to have held the spot for a term and is ineligible. But those in office when the amendment is ratified is excluded from the rule.
I chose this picture because this statement of Obama being president for a third term was floating around on all the social media sites and I believe that if this amendment was repealed Obama would have won President for a third time. Then to the right of the t-shirt you see a pin that says NO third term which is what this amendment wraps around we cannot have president three terms.
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