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☆☆☆☆☆The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified in 1947, limits
a president to two elected terms. The amendment also prohibits a person from running for reelection more than once if he or she has already served more than two years of a term to which someone else had been elected. The Constitution of the United States specifies a four-year presidential term. It originally says nothing about how many terms a president could serve.
The 22nd Amendment
The electoral college
To advise the president and serve as acting president
The President is chief executive of the United States. He is the Head of State and has the power to veto laws passed by Congress.
the 25th amendment
People say that the Vice President is "only a heartbeat away" from the presidency because the vice president is first in the order of succession. If the President's heart should stop beating, the Vice President takes over the office.
If the president dies or otherwise become incapacitated, the vice-president becomes president.
all of the state's electoral votes
It depends on what you are talking about... delegates to the electoral college, to the house of representatives, to the Republican national convention?
Members of the house of representatives are divided by population, but the total number is fixed. The Senate is two each from each state.
In presidential elections, almost all the states throw ALL of their votes to whoever wins the most votes in the state, rather than dividing the electors by popular vote.
For Democratic and Republican conventions, they divide the delegates by things like who voted their way last year, by how much, etc. Lots based on loyalty to the party.
The Vice President is next in the order of succession.
Each of the following factors contribute to the presidential selection system we use today except
filling a vacancy in the presidency
chief executive
The President nominates a new Vice President.
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