--- title: U.S. Const. Amend. XXII. Terms of the Office of the President collection: code id: us-const:amend-xxii cite_as: U.S. Const. Amend. XXII canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/us/amend-xxii md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/us/amend-xxii.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/us/amend-xxii/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/1us-const-(v1)-2025-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=328b75b8_0#page=1461 date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/us/index.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/us/amend-xxi.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/us/amend-xxiii.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md version: the only printed version in_force: true heading_path: AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION / Amendments --- # U.S. Const. Amend. XXII. Terms of the Office of the President A constitution provision shown as in force is in force as printed in the volume. A court decision can make a printed provision unenforceable without changing the volume, and the volume does not record that. 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. ## Law Reviews For note, “ERA: The Effect of Extending the Time for Ratification on Attempts to Rescind Prior Ratifications,” see 28 Emory L.J. 71 (1979). ## Am. Jur. 2d. 77 Am. Jur. 2d, United States, § 18.