Is it possible that a US President could serve more than 2 consecutive terms in a row?

Question

Could this happen and under what circumstances? Also, has this ever happened during the course of history?

Answer 1

It could be possible. The Consitution says the President can only be ELECTED to no more than 2 terms.

If the current President served as Vice President and due to an illness, death, or some other situation where the previous President could no longer function, than the Vice President would become President.

Only Franklin Delanore Roosevelt served more than 2 terms. He was elected for 4 terms and served 3 full terms and a few months of the 4th term.

The consitution was admended after his death to limit a President to only 2 terms.

Answer 2

No. The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was passed in 1951, during Harry Truman's term. It states that a President cannot serve more than 2 terms, consecutive or not. This was waved for Truman, if he so desired (being the incumbent), but he decided to stand by the newly-added amendment.

Also, if a VP succeeds to President, and serves more than 2 years of the elected President's term, then gets reelected, he cannot run agin, since that two years will be considered his term.

The 22nd Amendment:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxxii.html

Answer 3

No a President may only serve two consecutive terms . And yes it has happened before. FDR was elected to three terms ,but died in office before the term was up . Afterwords congress passed a bill holding the Presidents term to two consecutive terms

Answer 4

Not now

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 24, 1947. It was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 27, 1951.

Answer 5

Not anymore. There is an amendment that says that the President can not serve more than 2 terms.

BTW: FDR was elected 4 times, serving over the 3 terms.

Answer 6

The president can only serve 2 terms, period. It's a constitutional limitation. Before that limitation was added FDR served 3 full terms and was into his 4th before he died. No one else ever served more than 2 terms.

Answer 7

existence. And a President can serve as much as ten years; s/he can finished a prior term and then be elected two times. If Johnson had run and won, he could have been a 9-twelve months president.

Answer 8

Yes it has happened before. As they said - it happened in the time of war - no good time for reelections...

Yes, it really could happen again, all we have to do is change the amendment again. :)

Just like it is POSSIBLE that Arnold could be president if the constitution was changed to allow non-natural born citizens to be president. Remember, this is a DEMOCRATIC, so we have the say!

Answer 9

Yes, if he is the Vice President and the President dies otherwise, no. He can then go on to serve 2 terms "in his own right."

Answer 10

yes, if he declares martial law under the most extreme circumstaces with congresses blessings he could. The President is commander in chief of the armed forces.