[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
[104th Congress]
[House Document 103-342]
[The United States Constitution]
[Pages 106-107]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 

                          AMENDMENT XXII.a


[[Page 107]]
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.


Sec. 249. No person shall be elected President more 
than twice.

  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 


  a The 22d amendment to the Constitution of the United States was 
proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the 80th Congress 
on March 24, 1947, and was declared by the Administrator of General 
Services, in a proclamation dated March 1, 1951, to have been ratified 
by the legislatures of thirty-six of the forty-eight States. The dates 
of these ratifications were: Maine, March 31, 1947; Michigan, March 31, 
1947; Iowa, April 1, 1947; Kansas, April 1, 1947; New Hampshire, April 
1, 1947; Delaware, April 2, 1947; Illinois, April 3, 1947; Oregon, April 
3, 1947; Colorado, April 12, 1947; California, April 15, 1947; New 
Jersey, April, 15, 1947; Vermont, April 15, 1947; Ohio, April 16, 1947; 
Wisconsin, April 16, 1947; Pennsylvania, April 29, 1947; Connecticut, 
May 21, 1947; Missouri, May 22, 1947; Nebraska, May 23, 1947; Virginia, 
January 28, 1948; Mississippi, February 12, 1948; New York, March 9, 
1948; South Dakota, January 21, 1949; North Dakota, February 25, 1949; 
Louisiana, May 17, 1950; Montana, January 25, 1951; Indiana, January 29, 
1951; Idaho, January 30, 1951; New Mexico, February 12, 1951; Wyoming, 
February 12, 1951; Arkansas, February 15, 1951; Georgia, February 17, 
1951; Tennessee, February 20, 1951; Texas, February 22, 1951; Nevada, 
February 26, 1951; Utah, February 26, 1951; Minnesota, February 27, 
1951. Ratification was completed February 27, 1951. The amendment was 
subsequently ratified by North Carolina, February 28, 1951; South 
Carolina, March 13, 1951; Maryland, March 14, 1951; Florida, April 16, 
1951; Alabama, May 4, 1951.
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  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.