Can the U.S. President serve more then 2 terms for any reason?

Answer 1

If he replaces a president who has left office for some reason (death, removal, etc.), then yes, the president can technically 'serve' for more than two terms. But nobody can be elected to more than two terms.

Answer 2

Yes. The amendment states that a president cannot be elected for more than 2 terms. But if the president is assasinated, for example, the vice president then assumes the office. If he holds that office for less than 2 years before the next presidential election, then he can run for 2 more terms, leading to 10 years total in office. This has never happened though. The amendment was passed after Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, being the only man to ever serve more than 2 terms. The two term limit was a tradition started by washington.

Answer 3

The last president to serve more than 2 terms was FDR, the law has been changed since limiting only to 2 terms.

Answer 4

A US president can only serve for over 2 terms if he replaced the previous president about halfway through his term of office. Congrss made it unconstitutional for a President to serve more than 2 terms of office. The only president that has served for 4 terms of office was FDR. The congress wanted to prevent this from happening again even though it was against the founding fathers wishes for the terms of office to be limited.

Answer 5

Yes, but only at the beginning. He can only be elected twice, but if he originally became president through an act of succession, and the term he was completing was shorter than two years, then it's possible for a President to serve 10 years.

Answer 6

I think the only way that could happen is if the President is killed and the vice president takes over his term. After he finishes the unexpired term of the president he then can run for president. So technically he can't be elected three times but can serve three terms.

Answer 7

The President can serve no more than two elected terms. He may be in office longer than eight years however if he replaced a President that resigned or perhaps was assassinated.

Answer 8

The Twenty-second Amendment limits the president to only two terms in office. (Any period of service in the office of president for two years or more counts as one term). Thus, the maximum number of years a person may serve as president is ten years (two four-year terms and one two-year term having succeeded to the presidency).

Answer 9

Why, do you want Bush for 4 more years? Seriously, under the constraints of one of the Amendments to the Consitution (I forget which one), a president is limited to two terms of four years, but can theoretically serve two and a half terms minus one day.

Answer 10

I suppose that if the country were to experience a massive nuclear attack or an invasion from a foreign country that interrupted or precluded the election, a President might serve beyond 2 terms.

Otherwise, not.