How The Election Works:
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LOOKING BACK ON ELECTION 2000:
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Every four years we have an election, when the people of the United States vote for the person they want to be their president for the next four years. The four years that the winner gets to be President are called his term. The last election of a President was in 1996, when Bill Clinton was elected for a second term. The next election will be in November 2000, when we will elect a brand new president. President Clinton cannot be President again, because one of the amendments to the Constitution says you can only be elected President two times. Did you know that before that amendment was written, President Franklin Roosevelt served as President from 1932 until 1945, almost 4 whole terms? He was the only person to be President of the United States for more than 8 years.
