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Twenty-second Amendment

American

noun

an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1951, limiting presidential terms to two for any one person, or to one elected term if the person has completed more than two years of another's term.

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Obama had no appetite for superseding the Twenty-second Amendment.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2016

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