article II, section 1, paragraph 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America:
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:
It’s not even in an amendment, it’s defined in the original text. No way he gets enough states together to ratify an amendment to increase his term length.
The 22nd amendment of the United states constitution, fully ratified in 1951, begins as such:
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.
Term length is set to four years for the President and his VP in Article II, Section 1 of the constitution itself (original text) and has not been amended or altered.
Trump needs 38 state legislatures to ratify an amendment, he doesn’t and won’t ever have that.
Y’all gotta make sure term length can’t be redefined
You’re going to end up with presidential term limits like copywrite law
It’s not even in an amendment, it’s defined in the original text. No way he gets enough states together to ratify an amendment to increase his term length.
Maybe “anyone who’s President are only allowed two consecutive or non-consecutive terms with no way to run for an additional term”, perhaps?
The 22nd amendment of the United states constitution, fully ratified in 1951, begins as such:
Term length is set to four years for the President and his VP in Article II, Section 1 of the constitution itself (original text) and has not been amended or altered.
Trump needs 38 state legislatures to ratify an amendment, he doesn’t and won’t ever have that.
Yeah, but you still have to make sure a “term” isn’t suddenly 50 years long by some mechanism
Four-year terms