Two-Term Limit: 22nd Amendment Ratified
The Twenty-second Amendment passed because Democrats were furious at FDR. He'd won four times — nobody else had tried for three. Republicans pushed the amendment through Congress in 1947, two years after he died. It sailed through state legislatures. Then Eisenhower, a Republican, immediately hit the limit they'd just created. Reagan wanted it repealed. So did Clinton, Obama, and Trump. Every two-term president discovers the same thing: the 22nd Amendment only bothers the people who can't change it.
February 27, 1951
75 years ago
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