<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 limits the number of times one can be elected to the office of President of the United States . Congress proposed the amendment by two - thirds of both the House and Senate on March 21, 1947 . Ratification by the requisite 36 of the then - 48 states was completed on February 27, 1951 . </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 was the 22nd amendment proposed and ratified