By repeating this process, such a person could in effect serve many more than ten years as President, which the 22nd Amendment was designed to prevent. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. another 4 year term. 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. “Remember, the Twelfth Amendment and Twenty-second Amendments seem to emphasize assuming the office through the electoral process. It deals with a potential loophole in the Twenty-Second Amendment’s term limits for presidents. remained alive and popular. Accordingly, after FDR died, at the urging of then-president Harry S Truman, Congress decided it was time to act. more than a total of eight years. The Resolute desk as U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in the Oval Office of the White House March 5, 2018 in Washington. Combining “no election result” with “the current president stays in power indefinitely” sends an unacceptable message in a democratic republic. If Pelosi knew that the price of Trump being acquitted by the Senate was putting him back on the ballot in 2024, would she dare have proceeded? What it did instead was far more disturbing. But as noted earlier, on Inauguration Day, if there is no new president or vice president yet because the elections are in chaos, the selection of the speaker and president pro tempore likely will be in chaos as well. The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution imposes term limits for presidents. Government teachers and pundits like to boil down the 22nd Amendment to the proposition that the President cannot serve more than two terms. than 8 years. He fancies himself a bit of a jokester. When U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on July 30 his suggestion to delay the presidential election—and questioned whether the November vote’s results would be known for “months, or even years”—the response by political experts and observers was both an overreaction and an underreaction. While the 22nd Amendment bars Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton from ever being elected again, its terms do not disqualify them from temporarily … the executive office of President of the United States and designated The 12th Amendment only requires that an individual who is ineligible to become President cannot be Vice President. hand-picking Dmitry Medvedev as President who then announced that he The 22nd Amendment deprives the United States of the possibility of successful second acts. amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states and was enacted pattern that held for the next 140 years: not until Franklin D. Roosevelt won four consecutive elections between 1932 and 1944 did any. And so on. Inauguration Day succession doesn’t have to be this disorderly, though. occupying the White House and starting well before Barack Obama became The amendment, which officially abolished slavery in the United States in 1865, includes a loophole regarding involuntary servitude. A case could be made, therefore, that "eligible to the office" is equivalent to "eligible to be elected" for the purposes of the 12th Amendment. clearly to limit the number of years a single person could serve as The result would be fierce fighting over huge swaths of the House’s membership. The intention of the amendment was Joel A. party was currently occupying the White House. Presidents had considered running for the unprecedented third term several times, and in the few instances where someone did seek a third term, such as in the case of Theodore Roosevelt, they failed in their re-election bids. (. Again, where does it state that a person who has been elected more than twice is not, Interestingly enough, the Congress that proposed the 22nd amendment apparently considered an alternative version, which would have provided that no two-term president "shall be chosen or serve as President [...] or be eligible to hold the office," but rejected this broader language in favor of the narrower terminology that was actually ultimately adopted ("elected"). 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