Editing Term limit (section)

=== United States ===
{{Main|Term limits in the United States}}
A predecessor of modern term limits in the Americas dates back to the 1682 Pennsylvania Charter of Liberties and the colonial [[Frame of Government of Pennsylvania|frame of government]] of the same year, authored by [[William Penn]] and providing for triennial rotation of the [[Pennsylvania Provincial Council|Provincial Council]], the upper house of the [[Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly|colonial legislature]].<ref>Francis N. Thorpe, ed., ''The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and other Organic Laws''..., 7 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909) 5:3048, 3055–56, 3065.</ref> [[President of the United States|Presidents of the United States]] typically honored an informal tradition of only serving two terms in office, but this limit was not enshrined into law until the [[Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution|22nd Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]] was ratified in 1951 after [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] had been elected to an unprecedented third and fourth terms.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Buckley |first1=F.H. |last2=Metzger |first2=Gillian |title=Twenty-Second Amendment |url=https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/amendment-xxii/interps/149 |access-date=28 March 2022 |website=Constitution Center}}</ref>