United StatesQuestion 37 (2025 list) · System of government

The President of the United States can serve only two terms. Why?

  1. aBecause of the 19th Amendment
  2. bBecause of the 1st Amendment
  3. cBecause of the 22nd AmendmentCorrect answer
  4. dBecause of the 10th Amendment

Why?

The 22nd Amendment (1951) limits a President to two elected terms. You could also say it keeps the president from becoming too powerful.

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Questions and answers: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), 128 Civics Questions and Answers (2025 version), M-1778, and Civics Questions and Answers (2008 version), rev. 08/21 — public domain. USCIS accepts other answers too; we show one of them. The wrong options and the explanations are ours. Not affiliated with or endorsed by USCIS.

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