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 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.

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.

My Opinion: I cannot decide if I like this Amendment or not. If we have an amazing president who the public likes that much, why should he be limited to two terms in office. Obviously he wouldn't be in office if he wasn't liked and if he is doing something right, why punish him.

Obama Wants to Repeal the 22nd Amendment

My Opinion: Even though he doesn't come out and straight say he is planning on repealing the 22nd Amendment, you can tell he wants to. By him saying that was no mistake on his part, I believe he fully meant to say that and wanted to see who all caught it. If he does everything he says he will, it will take more then just two terms.

Repeal the 22nd Amendment

Mr. R. REAGAN has several times recorded his opposition to the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits a President from running for a third term. He has made it clear that even assuming the Amendment were repealed yesterday, or that it had never been enacted, he would not himself run for a third term. He says this plausibly because of his age. If he were the age Theodore Roosevelt was when he left office, having served almost a full two terms (McKinley was shot six months after his inauguration), one would greet the disavowal of ambition skeptically.

No, Reagan believes it. He will tell you that the American people have the right to vote as many times as they like not only for a senator or representative, but also for a President. "I intend to campaign when I get out of here on the subject." Reminded that tradition can achieve the same prestige as law, he replies that the tradition was set by George Washington "at a time when people were afraid of the restoration of the monarchy."

When Franklin Roosevelt decided to run for a third term he flouted the tradition, and during the campaign of 1940 much was made of FDR's narcissism. By the time the fourth term came up, Roosevelt was confirmed in the imperial manner, sometimes acting in such a way as to betray what Karl Wittfogel has called the megalomania of the aging despot. Mr. Reagan is quick to acknowledge that no man should run for the Presidency whose health is flagging. At the time Roosevelt ran in 1944, his doctors had privately confided to him that he was not fit to spend more than three hours a day at work. (If he had spent four hours a day, we'd have lost Western Europe also.)

My Opinion: This is a prime example of a president that if was physically capable would be perfect for this Amendment to be repealed. If the President is that popular and overall is a great leader why get rid of him?