That amendment was passed in response to Franklin Roosevelt’s four elections to the presidency. Since George Washington had stepped down at the end of his second term, no president had sought a third term, much less a fourth. The amendment was clearly meant to prevent presidents from serving more than two terms in office.

Donald Trump will once again become president of the United States. And he will return to the White House with small Republican majorities in both branches of Congress as well as a 6-3 GOP-appointee supermajority on the U.