Where in the constitution does it state the president can only run for two terms ?

Question

I need help finding the exact article section and clause where this is established .


Also is there a law in the constitution that forbids forgoing an election or halting an election by a US president ?

Answer 1

This should help you:

Amendment 22 stipulates the two-term limit. Enacted during Truman's term:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxxii.html

Answer 2

22nd Amendment: 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.

Answer 3

The twenty-second Amendment, ratified in 1951, limits a president to two terms.

This came after Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected 4 times in a row.

Answer 4

It's in the 3rd Article which defines the executive branch. No, there is no such law in the constitution.

Answer 5

the actual law prevents him from serving for ten years, so he could run for two terms if he served for two or less prior

The reason is to prevent someone from turning this country into a dictatorship

Answer 6

it was added as an amendment after the four terms of FDR.

Answer 7

doesn't even have to be in the constitution- a tradition was evolved after Rosevelt screwed things up pretty badly.