How many full terms can a president in the US serve?

Answer 1

A United States President can be elected to two4-year terms per the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution (ratified in 1951). However, Franklin D. Roosevelt served four terms (and died in office) prior to that time, the most of any US president.

The 22nd Amendment also establishes that a President who serves more than 2 years through succession to the office is limited to only one elected term.

There is actually no limit in law for how many terms a person may serve as President; the applicable laws in this regard are presently limited to restricting how many times a person may be elected, but do not restrict how many terms a person may serve as president. In the United States, the legal limit in the number of years is technically 10 years, not 8 as often but erroneously supposed. A President may serve as many as (but not more than) two years of a previous President's term and subsequently be elected to two full terms of his own. These restrictions are imposed by Section 1 of the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Other applicable areas of law concerning presidential succession are set forth in Article I, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution, and by the 25th Amendment (see Related links, below, for more information).

The law is virtually silent on the improbable, but possible, event that a person who has previously served for the maximum ten years in the circumstances described above is subsequently elected, or becomes after appointment by the President, Vice President - and becomes thereafter President upon the death, incapacitation, or resignation of the elected or serving President, serving out that term; in such a sequence of events, a person could presumably serve as many as 14 years (3½ terms) - or even more, in the even-more unlikely event that the scenario described should occur more than once.
The president can only serve two, four year terms, as set by modest George Washington.

Answer 2

The president of the US can serve two 4 year terms. A president who fills out more more than two years of another president's term, can serve only one more additional term. No person can serve more than 10 years as President in any case.

Answer 3

The US President can have only two consecutive terms, each four years in length, as imposed by the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1951. The only U.S. President to have more than two terms was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had four terms.

Answer 4

An U.S. president can only serve 2 full terms

Answer 5

The President of the US is elected for a 4 Year term, then must face reelection. He may NOT serve more than 2 terms.

Answer 6

2 terms

1 term=4 years

Answer 7

2 terms