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.
The 22nd Amendment states the terms of the presidency. As most know, a President can serve a maximum of two terms, each term is four years long, unless there is a death or impeachment.
This picture shows a pin from the 1940 Presidential Election in which Roosevelt was re-elected to his third term, the only President to do so. But now with the 22nd Amendment, no President is now allowed more than two terms.
This video goes through the unwritten constitution on the two terms unwritten rule. Also, explains why Roosevelt was elected to four different terms as well as the reason behind the 22nd Amendment.
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