What to know about the 12th, 22nd Amendments as Trump talks third term (1 Viewer)

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    President Trump has periodically floated the idea of serving a third term in office since his first reelection campaign and seemed to double down on it Sunday during an interview with NBC News, suggesting "there are methods" to do it despite term limits set by the 12th and 22nd Amendments in the U.S. Constitution.

    To date, Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only president in the history of the United States to serve more than two terms, ultimately sitting in office from 1933 to 1945. His third term was controversial, said Noah Rosenblum, a legal historian...

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