Tennessee U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) introduced a House Joint Resolution on Thursday that would amend the U.S. Constitution allowing a U.S. president to serve three terms.
Ogles’ proposed amendment to the Constitution, as written in the two-page resolution, would read:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.
In order for the Constitution to be amended, Ogles’ resolution must be passed by a two-thirds majority vote in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. The resolution must then be ratified by at least 38 out of the 50 U.S. states to become part of the Constitution.
While Ogles’ proposed constitutional amendment would apply to all former and future U.S. presidents, the Tennessee congressman said he specifically introduced the resolution in an effort to allow President Donald Trump the “necessary time” to accomplish his goal of “reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness.”
“It is imperative that we provide President Trump with every resource necessary to correct the disastrous course set by the Biden administration. President Trump has shown time and time again that his loyalty lies with the American people and our great nation above all else. He is dedicated to restoring the republic and saving our country, and we, as legislators and as states, must do everything in our power to support him,” Ogles said.
The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified on February 27, 1951, currently prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again:
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, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
The only president in U.S. history to serve more than two four-year terms was 32nd U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who served from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Photo “Rep Andy Ogles” by Rep. Andy Ogles and “Trump Inauguration” by the White House.
