| Amendment XXII |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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