<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Twenty - second Amendment (Amendment XXII) of the United States Constitution sets a limit on the number of times a person is eligible for election to the office of President of the United States, and also sets additional eligibility conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors . Congress approved the amendment on March 24, 1947, and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification . That process was completed on February 27, 1951, after the amendment had been ratified by the requisite 36 of the then - 48 states (as neither Alaska nor Hawaii had yet been admitted as states), and its provisions came into force on that date . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

When did it become law that a president can only serve 2 terms