Friday, December 2, 2011

22nd 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.

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.
Again this amendment doesn't affect me at all. I guess it could because if I'm a democrat and the same republican keeps being reelected then it would then affect things. Because you can't just always have the same person in "power" all the time. Change is good. 
FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt) was the only president to serve more the 2- 4 year terms, and basically he was the reason they came up with this idea. Even though George Washington thought that the presidents should have a limited time in office because he wanted to avoid what  they left, which was having a king. So from the beginning of our nation the 2 -4 year terms has been an idea. 
Like I said earlier, change is good. Sometimes the people that we vote in aren't always the best choice so after 8 years no matter what we have to change, which I think is it great idea. 

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