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CLEP US Government

Category - Gov. Institutions

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President Grande believes he is doing a grand job and wants to be president for another 20 years. Can he?
  1. Yes. As long as the people keep electing him, he can continue in office.
  2. Yes. The term of office for the president is 20 years, so he will stay in office for that long if he isn’t impeached and removed.
  3. No. Being president is too stressful and he would die of a heart attack before he got to 20 years.
  4. No. The Twenty-Second Amendment limits presidents to two elected terms in office.
  5. No. After 20 years, President Grande will be too old to still be eligible to hold office.
Explanation
Answer: D - After a lot of people thought that Franklin D. Roosevelt had been in office for too long, they worked to create the 22nd Amendment, which limited the President to two elected terms of four years each. It is theoretically possible for a president to serve longer than 8 years, but only if that president was elevated into office because something happened to the previous president. Lyndon B. Johnson, even though he had been president for six years already, could have run for another term because he had only been elected once after the death of President Kennedy.
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