I think the 2 term law for presidency should be repealed. I think if we find a president we like..........?

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and he keeps winning votes than he should be in power as long as he keeps winning election. Frankin D. Roosevelt served many terms and I heard thats why they changed the law. I think it's pure bullsh^t. If we want him there than what's the problem with that.

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Answer 1

You are correct, the amendment was passed after FDR finally passed away in office in his fourth term. The reason our government (and its people) passed the amendment was to prevent our system of government from turning into a dictatorship like the recently liberated Iraq (which I am sitting in presently). People like Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro remain(ed) in power because of the inability to limit terms through the country's own laws. It is for our country's own good that they have a limitation of power and terms.

We lucked out. FDR was a great man and a great leader, but who knows how long it would have taken for a Sadd am Hussein-like figurehead to come around into power in the United States had we not changed the laws.

Answer 2

The 2 term limit was put in because Roosevelt was elected 4 times. Now do you wish Bill Clinton to be a King. There are some that would elect him even if he was a corpse. There are others that wish he was. Same with Bush. If you wish to amend to Constitution you are welcome to try. Whom ever you wish to have more terms at the wheel will no long be able to be President by the time it has been done. The person that uses the new law/ability you'll wish you hadn't enabled it.

Answer 3

There is NOT a LAW limiting the President to 2 terms. The 22nd AMENDMENT to the Constitution imposes that limit. The amendment was prompted by FDRs break from the tradition set by George Washington of only serving 2 terms. I am undecided on the issue of repealing the amendment.

Answer 4

No, the problem with that is that an evil, manipulative president can find ways to accumulate power and influence until he could become president for life, like Castro. Our system is working fine. If anything, we should have term limits for Congress; two terms for a senator and six terms for a rep. That way we would be rid of the elderly idiots like Kennedy, Reid, McCain, Ted Stevens, and that guy from West Virginia.

Answer 5

I have a perfect example.

Our current president. Has bots & guys scanning this web forum as we speak because a lot of potentially dangerous discussion involving the Quran occur here. Not discussions on building a low yeild atomic devise but discussions on things such as "Is the Quran a book of hate?".

Let's say that just hypothetically because Bush is the most powerful man in world right now, maybe if he were not a nice person, then perhaps he could use that influence to affect the outcome of the up coming election. That is why we have terms.

Seven years and people have read my email, listened to my phone calls, seen which websites I visit, & what areas I tend to be it (electronic purchase survielince). I kinda have to say that I think this has gone just about far enough. I am not muslim. I am not the leading of a "splinter cell organisation". I do not know if Osama is alive.

Since the conception of the country we have had spys, and I think we should continue to do so. But I do not believe the scope of their surveillance should include innocent US civilians. Which it now does.

G.W. Bush is the perfect example of why terms are neccesary.

God knows given 20 years where we could be with him at the helm.

Answer 6

The Republicans had one hissy fit after another about the period from 1933 to 1953 because it was all Democrats and so they pushed for a law limiting another FDR 4 terms. Of course they forgot that it was all GOP from 1897 until 1913. So now the president is limited to 2 terms.

Answer 7

Well if we still had Clinton in office, we would most likely be in the midst of a deep depression both economically and in our heads...

To the person who is upset he's being watched and listened to, let's not worry about it, if you aren't doing anything that will harm the country. Worst case is you are having cyber or phone sex, and someone is getting his/her jollies from it. Big deal. If you blow a red light in San Antonio, they send you a ticket... Is that wrong... Is that bad? That could one day save someone you love. Same applies with the phone taps, which Bill Clinton did as well.

FDR wasn't as good as everyone may think he was. Let's face facts. The country was in a bad way then. It's all in the history books.

With the tax increases and NAFTA, if Clinton had been in office still where one of those economic killers was still in place we couldn't right the economy to save our lives.

I hope the majority of Amercans begin to realize what a joke he really was before his wife becomes our next president.

Answer 8

Actually I would like to see the same term limits in Congress.

Answer 9

While we are at it, why don't we just crown the guy, or gal king after a few years??!!

Personally, I think we should extend the amount of years of a term, and boot the guy out after one term.
For the simple fact during the first term people are less likely to make the hard decisions that need to be made for fear of losing reelection, and during their second term, they run a more extreme agenda.
make a 1 term limit of 6 years, and say good bye!

If you can't perform what is good for America in 6 years, that the next guy, regardless of party, will want to continue, you probably shouldn't be there for a second term anyway.

Answer 10

Historically speaking, we only allow 2 terms because George Washington limited himself to only 2 terms. They basically wanted him to become a monarch and he turned it down. That is one of his great contributions to our country.