22nd Amendment

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.

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.

Limits the President to being elected to two terms. Specifies that the President can only be elected twice, not that they can only serve eight years.

The video explains about why term limits were set, and how the two term limit began.


Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only President in history to be elected for four terms. Term limits were later put into the Constitution, this was so that America would never become a monarchy, with only one person ruling.