Friday, December 4, 2009

The 22nd amendment(no witisicms for this one)

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 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.


This amendment limits the terms of the president to only 2 4 year terms. The longest serving president was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who served 12 year 1 month and 8 days. President Roosevelt passed on April 12, 1945 from Cerebral Hemorage. His last words were "I have a terrible headache" He was the ONLY president to serve more than 2 terms.



This video is a reading of the 22nd amendment by Rev. Timothy McDonald. For me hearing this amendment makes it a little easier for me to comprehend than reading it myself.

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