Why can you only serve two terms as President?

Question

But in you can be Prime Minister for as long as they vote you in? Take Tony B for example, he's on his third term as PM.

Answer 1

It is in the constitution of the US that way.

The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for the President of the United States, providing 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." Prior to the adoption of the amendment, the constitution set no limit on the number of presidential terms. The United States Congress proposed the amendment on March 21, 1947. It was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 27, 1951.

Answer 2

Because congress wanted it so. The term limit was put in after F.D.R. died. They felt 2--4 year terms were enough as the Senate only had a 4 year term. That has been changed. The senate is now 6 year. The congress is 2year. Unlike the president there is no time limit on serving in the senate or congress.

Answer 3

There are no limit to how many turns a president can serve it depends on the people of America. Franklin Roosevelt served 4 terns 3-4-1933 -4-12-1945 but died in office, most served 1or 2 terms. Many retire, or leave due to health or another is voted in.

Answer 4

There's a thing called the 22nd amendment to the US Constitution that was enacted not long after Franklin Roosevelt was elected for his fourth term in 1944.
Also George Washington could have been president for life and he made the decision to stop after two terms of office.

Answer 5

22ND AMENDMENT (1951)

George Washington could have been elected to a third term, but declined it, suggesting two terms of four years were enough for any president. In 1797, he quietly returned to Mount Vernon. His two-term example became an unwritten rule in the realm of presidential politics until 1940. That was when Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who steered the nation through the Great Depression of the 1930s, decided he wanted to run again. Newspapers railed against the breach of tradition. His Republican opponent, Wendell Willkie forced the incumbent to run a hard campaign, which Roosevelt won. He then went after, and received, a fourth term in office, explaining that he could not leave the helm at a time he was guiding a nation through the Second World War.



Just months into his fourth term, Roosevelt died and, with him, the idea of unlimited terms for presidents. An amendment, promoted heavily by the Republican party and by others nervous at the idea of a permanent presidency, was passed in 1947. It was ratified by the states four years later. The amendment limits a president to two four-year terms. Today, in the city over which Roosevelt presided for 13 years, youngsters such as Nordina Blackburn, 6, of Norcross, Ga., can visit the monument to the first -- and last -- president to serve more than two terms.





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Amendment XXII:

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.



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Answer 6

Each country has it's own sat of laws. The US constitution was amended in the early 1950's to limit the number of terms a person can serve as president. That can change but it would require another constitutional amendment.

Answer 7

First off it's a precedent set by our first president, it's in the Constitution, and also it's not a total of 2 terms, you just aren't allowed to serve more than 2 consecutive terms as president.

Answer 8

It was put the constitution that a president would only serve two terms in respect to George Washington who only served two terms, so he set the two term president

Answer 9

The two term presidency was introduced (22nd amendment) after FDR was elected to a fourth term. I think the congress and senate did not want any one individual to hold that much power for that long of time.

Answer 10

But, a term of office for a PM in Britain might only be two years - they can call an election any time they want to. And would you really, really, really want 4 more years of Dubya? Good God, what a horrid thought!