According to the U.S. Constitution, the president serve a four-year term with a limit of two terms, that would be 8 years or 10 years in the case that the president serves a two-year term. This could happen if the vice-president took the charge of president after his death. These limits were set by the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The three branches of our government are described in the first articles of the United States Constitution and they are the representation of previous ideas about separation of powers acting independently one from each other.
Barak Obama was the first African-American person to run for President. Many people wanted to be a part of this historic vote. We also had a woman as a Vice-Presidental candidate on the Republican side with Sarah Palin. Whoever won it was going to make history.
