Talk:Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution
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Number of multiple-term presidents
how many presidents served more than one term
- To answer this question...
- George Washington
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- Andrew Jackson
- Abraham Lincoln (he died during his second term)
- Ulysses Grant
- Grover Cleveland (not consecutive)
- William McKinley (he died during his second term)
- Woodrow Wilson
- Franklin Roosevelt (the only President to be elected 4 times; died early in his 4th term)
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Richard Nixon (he resigned during his second term)
- Ronald Reagan
- Bill Clinton
- George W Bush
- 66.32.76.46 01:30, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Reason for amendment
Why was this amendment considered necessary? Was Roosevelt really that bad?
- I think the main beef was the potential for the presidency to become a de facto monarchy, with people choosing the "ruling" president as long as he wasn't doing things too badly, and/or the president making sure he would be continuously re-voted by doing everything to maintain the status quo (not necessarily good for the country). You can still say "so what?" to that, but US democratic principles are grounded in the rejection of monarchy, so even the hint of it is suspicious. I would like to see more-or-less expert explanations of it (taking contemporary considerations into account as well) of it on the page, though. --JRM 14:13, 2004 Sep 21 (UTC)
Comment
Personally, I have always felt that the 22nd Amendment should be itself re-amended to cover all three branches of government. Limiting the President as written, limiting Congress to 12 years maximum, and limiting the Supreme Court to 15 years. Fair is fair, right? I always found it queer that the president was limited but nobody else.