can us president serve 11plus yrs in office?

Answer 1

People saying he can only serve eight years are not exactly correct. If a vice president succeeds to the presidency more than halfway through his predecessor's term, he can seek election twice. In other words he can serve two whole terms in his own right, as well as the two years minus one day (or whatever) of his predecessor's term. Had Lyndon Johnson sought and won another term in 1968, he could have served as president for over nine years (November 1963 to January 1973).

So it is possible to serve more than eight years, but not ten or more.

EDIT: Whoever gave me thumbs down is ignorant. Here is what the 22nd Amendment says: "no person who has held the office of 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." Ergo, if he serves less than half of another's term, he can be elected twice.

Answer 2

The total number of years a president can serve in office is 10. Example: Say President Bush is unable to serve the remaining 2 or less years of his current term (after January 20, 2007), Vice President Cheney would serve the remaining time of President Bush's term. Vice President Cheney could then serve 2 four year terms (a total of 8 years plus the remaining 2 years of President Bush's term = 10 years).

Answer 3

The US presidential elections must be held every four years and a president can only run twice, which means they are restricted to eight years in office.

However if a president died in office in his first year, the vice preident would become president serve the reaining 3 or 4 years and the have two more cahnces, so that maximum is technically 12 years

Answer 4

The maximum permissable under the US constitution is:
eight?, no, an infinite number of years as vice-president, then up to three years, eleven months and thirty days if the president before him is assassinated on the first day in office, and then

two full terms of four years each (of his own presidency)

So yes, it is possible, and I believe the bloke after was it Kennedy or Lincoln was in for nearly that long (or would've been if reelected ???).

Answer 5

No. A US President may serve a maximum of two terms, or four years plus another four years if elected while still in office. Here in UK, a political leader, such as Tony Blair, could get re-elected many times. The head of state in UK is HM Queen by the way and she don't need to get elected.

Answer 6

As i'm specific has been chronicled already the modification to cut back the President to 2 words became handed after FDR died. additionally If somebody (ie the vp) have been to anticipate place of work and serve greater suitable than 2 years of a Pres's unexpired term she or he would desire to in effortless terms be elected to a minimum of one greater term. as an occasion if Gerald Ford had overwhelmed Jimmy Carter in 1976 he would have been ineligible to run back in 1980 because of the fact he served 2 yrs 5 mos of Nixon's 2d term.

Answer 7

US presidents can only serve two 4 year terms. So a maximum of 8 years. There was a rumour that they were going to try and change this when Reagan was in power. Now thats a scary thought.

Answer 8

no.the United States constitution states that a president can only serve a maximum of 2 terms at 4 years a piece.

Answer 9

A US President is only allowed to serve two terms in office and so can only serve between 8-9 years depending on what month the election is called.

Answer 10

10 years max.

The 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.

So if you as VP become president 2 years previous to the next inauguration you can be elected for two more terms = 10 years.