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.

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.

The 22nd Amendment of the United States Constitution is saying that the president can only be elected for two terms, not three terms. Only one president in the United States' history that served four terms and it was Franklin D. Roosevelt. It wasn't after FDR's death that Congress pass this amendment.



The obverse side of a dime has the face of FDR to honor him for what he has done for the United States. An interesting fact of the dime is that FDR was not the first person to be featured on the dime.

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Congress passed the 22nd Amendment after FDR's death to prevent a single party from having too much power. FDR was the only president in the United States' history to served more than two terms. In addition, Gerald Ford could have served the presidency for ten years due to the Watergate scandal; he was the only president that was not elected for the presidency and vice president.