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Neither of those things is true for the 22nd Amendment. There is no provision analogous to Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, and there is far less room for ambiguity over what circumstances fall within the Amendment's ambit. Which means that there's a stronger argument that the 22nd Amendment prohibition on being elected to the office of President more than twice is "self-executing" in a way that allows State action to enforce it.

People keep making the false assumption that the existing Constitution will still be enforced three years from now, just as they make the false assumption that there will be a regular, legal, unrigged, congressional election a year from now.

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