Posted on 04/15/2024 11:55:54 AM PDT by Az Joe
"No person shall serve as President more than 2 consecutive terms (plus less than the final 2 years of the preceding president's term due to death, incapacitation or resignation for a total of 10 consecutive years.) AND ....no person shall serve as president more than 4 terms."
I have come to that conclusion also.
I think what we have now works. We don’t need to change it.
If we survive a four year term, we can survive a 6 year term. The question is will we survive as a free nation until November?
Biden is 45?
The problem isn’t the President’s term limits it’s the lack thereof of congressional term limits.
If you really want to do something positive, changing the wording to “no member of congress”.
I would change it to:
"No person shall serve as President more than 2 consecutive terms (plus less than the final 2 years of the preceding president's term due to death, incapacitation or resignation for a total of 10 consecutive years.) AND ....no person shall serve as president more than 4 terms.... AND.... you cannot stay in DC in your privately-purchased house and issue orders to your personally-selected puppet of a president so you are, in fact, running a Shadow Government. This especially pertains to YOU, Barack Obama.
I think my addition adds a lot.
"Bad" is always better than "worse." If FDR had decided to not run, the most likely candidate would have been Henry Wallace; he would have handled the war similarly to FDR, but would have given Stalin everything he wanted after the war (remember, he was the 1948 Progressive Party candidate). If Wallace had been defeated by Wendell Wilkie, Wilkie had left the Dems because of FDR aggrandizing power, so he was the original assistant Democrat. His famous 1942 book? One World. All you need to know.
No, this won’t happen or will simply result in another Obama for repeat terms. Current Constitution is just fine.
How about ONE term for ANY elected federal office. These career politicians are the root of most of our problems. How about 10 years of Biden? Remember it goes both ways.
WTH? No. Just no. Bad as the loony left with these proposals. Stack the Supreme Court. Do away with electoral college. Let Trump be President for life. 🥜🌰🔩
>>>>> no person shall serve as president more than 4 terms.
As stated, the potential exists for a president to have to vacate the office midway through his 4th term, if he finished someone else’s term. A better way to phrase it might be to refer to the number of times he can be elected, as the current amendment does. Less ambiguity.
This would be correct.
We need to 86 46.
that already happened. When we did not enter Berlin and allowed the Soviets to occupy it as we stood back it was a disaster that cost us the rest of the 20th century.
Just no
This entire amendment is dumb and unnecessary
FDR realized it was going to take longer to get all of his New Deal crap completed. Below is a great thread with a long booklet written in 1938 called “The Revolution Was” about FDR and the New Deal.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
“The effect was to keep people excited about one thing at a time, and divided, while steadily through all the uproar of outrage and confusion a certain end, held constantly in view, was pursued by main intention.
The end held constantly in view was power.”
10 year limit on higher positions in the executive branch. Trimming presidential power does nothing if the apparatus outlasts everyone. This would include Justice, State, FBI, CIA, Darla, ATF
"Proposed 28th Amendment to the US Constitution"
If the states would wake up and put a stop to the tsunami of unconstitutional federal taxes that oppressed taxpayers reluctantly send to DC every year by repealing the 16th Amendment (direct taxes), then the crooks would lose interest in getting elected to DC imo.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
The 17th Amendment (popular voting for federal senators) needs to disappear too imo.
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