The Constitution’s 22nd Amendment is in the news after two congressional members engaged in a spirited debate this week about its purpose. To help readers understand the questions involved, here ...

Former Tennessee Attorney General Paul Summers writes a regular guest essay on the history of the U.S. Constitution.

But that’s just the thing: The 22nd Amendment doesn’t say Trump would be ineligible to serve as president for a third term. It just says he is ineligible to run for a third term (or, more precisely, ...

The 22nd Amendment says: "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, ...

We are a nation of laws, not kings. The 22nd Amendment is clear that no person can be elected President more than twice. Any attempt by Donald Trump to do so is blatantly unconstitutional, and I ...

The U.S. will never have its own King Louis XIV, who reigned over France for a record 72 years and 110 days. At least not while the 22nd Amendment is on the books, which in 1951 provided the ...

Other ways to stay in power. Amending the Constitution is not the only way that Trump could stay in power after his current term ends. "Though the 22nd Amendment prohibits Trump from being elected ...

“What the 22nd Amendment does is prohibit him from being elected for a third term, rather than serving for a third term - which I regard as an unfortunate drafting error,” he said in an ...

For the first time in 14 years, Congress last week proposed an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.* It concerned presidential tenure. Under its terms, no person can be elected to ...

The U.S. Constitution is 225 years old, but some of the amendments are much younger. Like, for instance, the 22nd Amendment. It turns 61 today, and sets an important limit for the president. “No ...

At first blush, the 22nd Amendment appears to be an absolute barrier. It was ratified in 1951 in response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s four-term presidency.