Once the tradition of serving no more than two terms had been established in the early s, it became a canon of U. He did so in the belief that U. In , with the war raging, Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented fourth term.
In declining health when elected, he died in After the election, which produced Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, the Republicans sought to prevent a repetition of Roosevelt's actions.
The Twenty-second Amendment was introduced in and adopted in Follow Ballotpedia. Click here to follow election results! State legislative term limits. Term limits are a particularly important issue in the United States. President George Washington originally started the tradition of informal Presidential term limits by refusing to run for a third term.
The short-lived Confederate States of America adopted a six-year term for their President and Vice-President, and barred the President from seeking re-election. This innovation was endorsed by many American politicians after the war, most notably by Rutherford B. Hayes in his inaugural address. Hayes' proposal did not come to fruition, but the government of Mexico adopted the Confederate term and limit for its federal President.
Franklin Roosevelt was the first and only President to successfully break Washington's tradition, and he died in office while serving his fourth term. Congressional term limits were featured prominently in the Republican Party's Contract with America in the United States House election campaign and may well have contributed to the Republicans gaining control of the United States House of Representatives from the Democratic Party for the first time since the United States elections.
The Republican leadership brought to the floor of the House a constitutional amendment that would limit House members to six two-year terms and members of the Senate to two six-year terms. However, this amendment did not gain the approval of U. Term Limits , the largest private organization pushing for Congressional term limits.
Term Limits wanted House members to be limited to three two-year terms. With the Republicans holding seats in the House, the amendment did receive a simple majority in the House. However, a two-thirds majority votes is required to pass a constitutional amendment, and thus the bill failed. The concept subsequently lost momentum by the mid s. Term Limits, Inc. Thornton , that states cannot impose term limits upon their U. Representatives or U. Term limits at the federal level are restricted to the executive branch and some agencies.
The U. Congress, however, remains without electoral limits. Term limits for state governors or others within the state executive branch and other high constitutional offices have existed since the beginning of the United States.
One of the first such limits of its kind, the Delaware Constitution of , limited the Governor of Delaware to a single three-year term; the governor of Delaware can serve two 4-year terms. As of present, there are 36 states have adopted term limits of various types for their governors.
One variation allowed a governor to be re-elected, but only to non-consecutive terms. Roosevelt passed on running for office in , fully aware of the Washington precedent. But after a fallout with President William Howard Taft, he sought a third nonconsecutive term in the presidential election.
He lost the election as a third-party candidate but came in second ahead of Taft. The move caused some key Roosevelt supporters within the Democratic Party to leave his campaign. Roosevelt insisted that he was in the race to keep America out of war in Europe, and he easily defeated Wendell Willkie on Election Day.
After Roosevelt died in , momentum built quickly for a presidential term-limits amendment. Harry Truman was President when the amendment was proposed and ratified, and its language allowed for Truman to run for office in And in , President Lyndon Johnson was eligible to run since he assumed the presidency in late
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