The Twenty-Second Amendment

"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."

The video above is of President FDR accepting his party’s nomination to run for an unprecedented fourth term as President.  From the times of President George Washington, our nation's very first President, it was implied that a President could only serve two terms.  The amendment states that, "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."  The Republican Party wanted to do everything in the power to ensure that the Democrats would never again hold the Presidency for more than 10 years. 

There are people in this country that by having a limit on the number of terms a person can be in the office of the Presidency, you are infringing on their rights to elect whom they wish to vote for.  While this proposal may sound crazy to most, it does hold some merit.  The qualifications to run for the Presidency are listed within the Constitution and nowhere is it implied how long a person can be President.  It was only the act of President George Washington that created the notion that a President could and would only serve two terms in office.  The will of the people, the popular vote, should come before the amount of terms a person can run for the Presidency.