What Is The Norm Or Precedent Regarding The Terms Of Office A United States President Can Serve? Is There A Law Regarding The Issue?

The precedent was set by the first president of the United States, George Washington. He served two four-year terms as president of the United States of America. On a total front, he stayed president of his country for eight whole years and then stepped down from the position. As a matter of fact, this unspoken yet consolidated precedent was entrenched as a presidential relic that all (who were elected as United States presidents) followed religiously and obsequiously. Just like there are some other unspoken patterns, which however are not equal in status to norms nevertheless there is a cohesive pattern in those precedents. Such as every United States president has always been a white male. All but one, of them were Catholics and most of them were connected to the field of law.

However there has been an exception in the presidential tradition of serving terms. In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt got elected to a third term and later on in 1944 got elected president again. After the death of president Roosevelt, Congress passed the twenty-second amendment that stated that no president can serve more than two four-year terms.

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