Amendment XXII Ratified February 27, 1951 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 President more than once. But this
Enacted after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to four consecutive terms, breaking the precedent set by George Washington, who stepped down from office after two terms, and followed by every President up to FDR.
