Posted on 02/28/2015 12:50:57 PM PST by Lazamataz
With the anniversary of the 22nd Amendment on Friday, Constitution Daily looks at two hot-button topics: Should a President be allowed to serve a third term? And should members of Congress and the Supreme Court have term limits like the President?
View photo .obamainaug1 The 22nd Amendment brought the idea of term limits into the Constitution. When it was ratified in 1951, the amendment limited a President from effectively serving a third term, by saying that a President who won two elections can’t run a third time. The 22nd Amendment also bars a President from serving more than 10 years in office, in a case of a President who assumed office as Vice President.
For example, Vice President Gerald Ford took over for President Richard Nixon in 1974 and served more than two years as president. If Ford had defeated Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election, Ford could not have run for re-election.
Long before the 22nd Amendment, George Washington had set an unofficial precedent in 1796 when he decided several months before the election not to seek a third term. But Alexander Hamilton and many Founders wanted a strong executive, and they opposed term limits as a concept. Thomas Jefferson and an equally influential group of Founders supported term limits for the President.
The only person to break from Washington’s precedent was President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with a record-setting four election wins. Before Roosevelt ran for re-election in 1940, most Presidents didn’t try for a third term in office, let alone a third consecutive term.
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I'm guessing that there are plans afoot to create some sort of crisis so that Obama and his cohorts can declare martial law, suspend next year's elections and give this puke unlimited power. I used to think such a plan could never be implemented in this country. Now I'm not so sure. Who would stop him? The spineless wussies in congress? The thoroughly corrupt judiciary? Our weakened military?
Obama has already tested the limits with his pen and phone and found that our elected officials won't do anything to stop him. If we want him stopped, it will be up to us ordinary citizens to do it.
Oh and by the way, Laz, I'll save you a spot at the gulag. :)
One day is too long for a traitorous illegal alien like Obama.
But for American citizens elected to the presidency 8 years is too long.
I think one 5 or 6 year term for a president is enough.
Most modern two-term presidencies start to fail or become less effective in their 5th or 6th year.
And most, but not all, spend the last two years Legacy Building, cramming bad policies down our throats or using the presidency to settle debts, good and bad.
They’ll just manipulated your account and keep posting, so nobody will know.
Who knows, maybe they already have?
Hey Laz, what have you hit lately?
Barack Obama. Eric Holder, Jeh Jackson, Harry Belafonte, Susan Rice, & Jeb DeBlasio the kingpins & lieutenants of the Mulatto Mafia
Wow, joking about Yahoo News aside, this article has 14,453 comments!!! The most replied to comment (163) and having 5,400 LIKES (only 62 non-likes) is by Morgan, “No President should serve more than 2 terms and I wish we had term limits for ALL politicians. “
So hey, maybe the common American isn’t as blind, deaf, and dumb as we think?
Just no, no, no, no no no no...
NO!
If he doesn’t leave, I think many peoples’ lives get very simple real quick.
No.
Many shouldn’t even serve one term.
Obama could easily have a third term if he wants one. First, he would get the Roberts Supreme Court to greenlight it—perhaps by ruling that the 22nd Amendment doesn’t apply to blacks. Then he would face negligible primary opposition before finally crushing the GOP’s Bush/McConnell ticket in a massive landslide.
Neither Bush nor even Clinton would have dared, although Clinton is trying to wiggle past it by getting his partner in crime into the White House. We have not yet seen what if any lines Obama won’t try to cross and any assumptions one could make about adherence to the Constitution and the Oath of Office simply do not apply.
IIRC, they asked the same question during Clinton’s term.
Funny how this question never gets asked during Republican Administrations...
“Should a President be allowed to serve a third term?”
Not just, “NO, but HELL, NO!”
“And should members of Congress and the Supreme Court have term limits like the President?”
Not just, “YES, but HELL, YES!”
Add the Senate, too, although they are assumed to be members of “Congress”.
If he runs for a third term who is going to stop him? The Constitution is constantly ignored by nearly everyone in DC. Those that don’t ignore it enable the ones that do.
Haven't you heard? Laz lost all his guns in a tragic boating accident...
No to the first question, and yes to the second. We have become a government of self serving, self important geezers. Twelve years is enough time for anyone to play in our Congress. After that, Congresscritters should go get real jobs, and get off the public dole. ...Eight years is more time than any fool should be president, and longer than any nation should have to suffer one.
>>Well Laz, if, um...they do {ahem} get you, can I have your guns?<<
The heck with that — Laz, can I have your ping list? Not the one everyone knows about, but the super-secret ping list with all the hotties on FR?
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