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Constitutional Amendment XXII, 1951

Dieses Amendment verbot die Wahl eines Präsidenten für mehr als zwei Amtsperioden. Alle Präsidenten hatten sich an das Vorbild in dieser Frage, George Washington, gehalten und sich nach zwei Amtsperioden nicht wieder aufstellen lassen, bis auf Franklin D. Roosevelt. Es wurde am 21. März 1947 verabschiedet und am 27. Februar 1951 ratifiziert.

 

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 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.

“Sec. 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.”

 

 

Faksimile: Constitutional Amendment XXII

Constitutional Amendment XXII

 

Quelle:
U.S. National Archives & Records Administration
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/amendments-11-27