[ScottFromSpokane]

I think I know where you get the "ten years" thing, but I don't believe it's actually in the Constitution. It comes from the possibility of serving two years of an unexpired term, plus two terms of one's own, for a total of ten years.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"I think I know where you get the "ten years" thing, but I don't believe it's actually in the Constitution. It comes from the possibility of serving two years of an unexpired term, plus two terms of one's own, for a total of ten years."

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Exactly, 10 years is not a constitutional maximum. A friend of mine once stated (as an aside) in a footnote to a law journal article that there was a 10-year max for serving as president, and he later had to admit that in theory people could serve well over 10 years as president.