    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 119th Congress]
    [119th Congress]
    [House Document 118-187]
    [The United States Constitution]
    [Pages 119-120]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                         AMENDMENT XXII.\13\

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    6, 1933; Montana, August 6, 1934. The convention held in the State of
    South Carolina on December 4, 1933, rejected the 21st amendment.

    \13\ The 22d amendment to the Constitution of the United
    States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the
    80th Congress on March 24, 1947, and was declared by the Administrator
    of General Services, in a proclamation dated March 1, 1951, to have been
    ratified by the legislatures of 36 of the 48 States. The dates of these
    ratifications were: Maine, March 31, 1947; Michigan, March 31, 1947;
    Iowa, April 1, 1947; Kansas, April 1, 1947; New Hampshire, April 1,
    1947; Delaware, April 2, 1947; Illinois, April 3, 1947; Oregon, April 3,
    1947; Colorado, April 12, 1947; California, April 15, 1947; New Jersey,
    April, 15, 1947; Vermont, April 15, 1947; Ohio, April 16, 1947;
    Wisconsin, April 16, 1947; Pennsylvania, April 29, 1947; Connecticut,
    May 21, 1947; Missouri, May 22, 1947; Nebraska, May 23, 1947; Virginia,
    January 28, 1948; Mississippi, February 12, 1948; New York, March 9,
    1948; South Dakota, January 21, 1949; North Dakota, February 25, 1949;
    Louisiana, May 17, 1950; Montana, January 25, 1951; Indiana, January 29,
    1951; Idaho, January 30, 1951; New Mexico, February 12, 1951; Wyoming,
    February 12, 1951; Arkansas, February 15, 1951; Georgia, February 17,
    1951; Tennessee, February 20, 1951; Texas, February 22, 1951; Nevada,
    February 26, 1951; Utah, February 26, 1951; Minnesota, February 27,
    1951. Ratifi-

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    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.

    Sec. 249. No person shall be elected President more
    than twice.

      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