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Introduction

AMENDMENT XXII

Passed by Congress March 21, 1947. 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 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.

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

the 22 amendment states that a person should not be elected to be a president more than two times . This means someone new must be elected as the president . The only president that was in more than two times was Franklin d Roosevelt. But some countries dont follow this law such as china and Japan

Big idea

1,presidency electio

2.communist governmen

3.Franklin d Roosvelt

Task

Jennifer Dougbe

Technology/design performance Task #2

Franklin d Roosevelt:

http://roundtable.menloschool.org/issue9/4_Star_MS_Roundtable9_Spring_2011.pd

Franklin Roosevelt is the only president to ever be in office for more 5 years

https://eastchestermiddlehighschoollib.wikispaces.com/Amendment+22W

It’s illegal for someone to be president for more than 4 years so someone new has to be elected.