Qualifications and the Two-Term Limit
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A president must be at least thirty-five, a natural-born citizen, and fourteen years a resident; the Twenty-Second Amendment limits presidents to two elected terms.
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The two-term tradition held from Washington until Franklin Roosevelt's four; the 1951 amendment made tradition law.
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Qualifications are constitutional floor conditions, not descriptions of who wins.
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