# A way around the 22nd Amendment? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 28, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-way-around-the-22nd-amendment/1013538 "2025-01-28T17:33:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-way-around-the-22nd-amendment/1013538/1 "2025-01-28T17:33:44Z")
Perhaps covered in another thread already. The 22nd Amendment says “No person shall be _ **elected** _ to the office of President more than twice…” [emphasis mine] What if someone else ran for President and won, and a 2-termer ran as that person’s Vice President, then once elected the President resigns? The language of the Amendment does not seem to preclude the 2-termer to then assume the Presidency. Or? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-way-around-the-22nd-amendment/1013538/2 "2025-01-28T17:38:11Z")
We have done this about 25 times in the last 6 months. You might try searching for “22nd” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-way-around-the-22nd-amendment/1013538/3 "2025-01-28T17:43:12Z")
Or search for the 12th Amendment of the Constitution. > _But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States._ ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-way-around-the-22nd-amendment/1013538/4 "2025-01-28T17:45:01Z")
There is talk of a new amendment limiting the president to three non-consecutive terms. I don’t see it getting anywhere in time to help His Orangeness. ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-way-around-the-22nd-amendment/1013538/5 "2025-01-28T18:05:04Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > You might try searching for “22nd” Yeah, I tried that and other permutations. All returned a lot of posts that I variably slogged through, but none got to that question. Thanks for your totally voluntary response. Sorry to bother you. ---
**Author:** ![anny\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-way-around-the-22nd-amendment/1013538/6 "2025-01-28T18:17:58Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > There is talk of a new amendment limiting the president to three non-consecutive terms. I don’t see it getting anywhere in time to help His Orangeness. I saw on my newsfeed (but didn’t click through) that they’ve put some language in the amendment that if it passed would somehow prevent Obama from serving a third term. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-way-around-the-22nd-amendment/1013538/7 "2025-01-28T18:20:42Z")
Closed on January 28, 2025, 6:20pm UTC ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-way-around-the-22nd-amendment/1013538/8 "2025-01-28T18:20:57Z")
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