The 22nd Amendment

The 22nd Amendment limits presidents to just two full terms in office. It was added to the Constitution in reaction to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's unprecedented four terms in office.

60-Second Civics, Episode 5304: February 5, 2025 (a rebroadcast of Episode 5054: January 22, 2023)

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Image/video credits: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/201... President Ronald Reagan at his desk in the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, https://loc.gov/pictures/item/2011633... President Barack Obama, Obama White House Archived, https://www.flickr.com/photos/obamawh... "Trip to Texas: Swearing-in ceremony aboard Air Force One, Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) as President," JFK Library, https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-view... Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/201... Marshal Stalin, President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/965... Roosevelt's funeral procession, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/965... (left) Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, 1796–1803, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.16; Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, New-York Historical Society, https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects....