United States Constitional Amendments
22nd Amendment
Section 1
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. But this Article
shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this
Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person
who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President,
during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding
the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of
such term.
Section 2
This article shall be inoperative
unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution
by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven
years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
23rd Amendment
Section 1
The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as Congress may direct:
A
number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole
number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District
would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the
least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by
the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the
election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a
State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as
provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
Section 2
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
24th Amendment
Section 1
The
right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other
election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or
Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not
be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of
failure to pay poll tax or other tax.
Section 2
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
