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Article XXII
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Section 1.
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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.
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Section 2.
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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. |
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