Twenty-second
Amendment
Proposed
on March 21, 1947. Ratified on February 27, 1951.
Sect.
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.
Sect.
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.
Order
of State Ratification
Maine |
Mar
31, 1947 |
Michigan |
Mar
31, 1947 |
Iowa |
Apr
1, 1947 |
Kansas |
Apr
1, 1947 |
New
Hampshire |
Apr
1, 1947 |
Delaware |
Apr
2, 1947 |
Illinois |
Apr
3, 1947 |
Oregon |
Apr
3, 1947 |
Colorado |
Apr
12, 1947 |
California |
Apr
15, 1947 |
New
Jersey |
Apr
15, 1947 |
Vermont |
Apr
15, 1947 |
Ohio |
Apr
16, 1947 |
Wisconsin |
Apr
16, 1947 |
Pennsylvania |
Apr
29, 1947 |
Connecticut |
May
21, 1947 |
Missouri |
May
22, 1947 |
Nebraska |
May
23, 1947 |
Virginia |
Jan
28, 1948 |
Mississippi |
Feb
12, 1948 |
New
York |
Mar
9, 1948 |
South
Dakota |
Jan
21, 1949 |
North
Dakota |
Feb
25, 1949 |
Louisiana |
May
17, 1950 |
Montana |
Jan
25, 1951 |
Indiana |
Jan
29, 1951 |
Idaho |
Jan
30, 1951 |
New
Mexico |
Feb
12, 1951 |
Wyoming |
Feb
12, 1951 |
Arkansas |
Feb
15, 1951 |
Georgia |
Feb
17, 1951 |
Tennessee |
Feb
20, 1951 |
Texas |
Feb
22, 1951 |
Nevada |
Feb
26, 1951 |
Utah |
Feb
26, 1951 |
Minnesota |
Feb
27, 1951 |
North
Carolina |
Feb
28, 1951 |
South
Carolina |
Mar
13, 1951 |
Maryland |
Mar
14, 1951 |
Florida |
Apr
16, 1951 |
Alabama |
May
4, 1951 |
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last state required for ratification. |
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