District Council member Brianne Nadeau: This limbo that we're in because of the congressional rider is untenable, it's a big problem. John Fitzgerald Kennedy: I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad.
FDR was the first and only president to serve more than two terms. Passed by Congress in 1947, and ratified by the states on February 27, 1951, the Twenty-Second Amendment limits an elected president to two terms in office, a total of eight years.
The President of the United States became subject to term limits in 1951 with the ratification of the 22nd. Amendment to the Constitution. It was passed after the death of Franklin Roosevelt, who was elected President. four times. The 22nd Amendment states that no President can be elected to more than two full terms. Efforts to. impose term limits on Congress have been attempted at various times, most notably in the 1990s when more than. 20 states enacted legislation to limit the terms of their members of Congress.