2006-12-10 05:48:13 · 15 answers · asked by tarvinearl 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Ten total. Two terms and two years.
2006-12-10 05:51:28 · answer #1 · answered by taxidriver 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Nearly twelve years.
As elected President he may serve only two terms of four years, that makes eight.
If a Vice President is sworn in to finish the term as President, because the President has died or abdicated, those years are not counted. So if a President should be killed shortly after the inauguration, his Vice President would get the chance to serve 12 years as President.
After the assassination of J. F. Kennedy, Johnson was sworn in as President in the Airforce One to serve about 14 months till the end of that term, then he was elected President for 1 term and could have run again in 1968, but then Hubert Humphrey was candidate for the democrats.
After the resignation of R. M.Nixon in 1974 Gerald Ford, who never had been elected Vice President (!), also had in theory the chance to serve more than 2 terms, but the presidency changed in 1976 back to the democrats, to Jimmy Carter.
2006-12-10 13:57:41 · answer #2 · answered by corleone 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
8
2006-12-10 13:50:37 · answer #3 · answered by wildbill05733 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The President is constitutionally limited to 2 4year terms or a total of 8 years
2006-12-10 13:51:00 · answer #4 · answered by Wilkow Conservative 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
At present, the president of the United States can serve for two terms of four years each, or a total of eight years. But there are historical precedents for longer service during times of national emergency. For example, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for four terms of office, for the period covering the great Depression and WW2. He died before he could complete his fourth term of office.
2006-12-10 14:08:01 · answer #5 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
two terms of 4 years= 8 years total
2006-12-10 13:51:25 · answer #6 · answered by xX NeverLetGo Xx 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He can be elected to the presidency twice, for two four-year terms.
HOWEVER...say a person was vice-president, and the same day as the inauguration of the president and himself, the president dies...the VP would become president, and since he wasn't *elected* president he could serve out that full term, plus be elected twice more.
So under normal circumstances, 8 years. In the scenario above, 12 years. That's the maximum.
2006-12-10 13:51:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
They can serve no more than two terms for a total of eight years.
2006-12-10 13:51:39 · answer #8 · answered by Joy M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Isn't up to 10 or something like that? I thought a VP's years as filling in for an incapacitated president did count....
2006-12-10 15:54:44 · answer #9 · answered by Lilywhite 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two four year terms u idiot
if u didnt know that u shouldnt be living in the states
2006-12-10 13:55:29 · answer #10 · answered by pennstatefan22 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
What's a prsident?
2006-12-10 13:51:28 · answer #11 · answered by Jerse 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋