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The Twenty-Second Amendment and the Limits of Presidential Tenure - A Tradition Restored (Paperback)
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The Twenty-Second Amendment and the Limits of Presidential Tenure - A Tradition Restored (Paperback)
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For nearly a century and a half, Americans lived by a powerful
tradition in which no President served more than two terms. Then
came Franklin Delano Roosevelt, restricted by custom but not by
law, who won a third term in 1940 and a fourth in 1944. Believing
that the broken norm would be breached again, the
Republican-controlled eightieth Congress acted to restore it,
passing a constitutional change in 1947 to formalize an absolute
limit on presidential tenure. Ratified in 1951, the Twenty-second
Amendment created a lame-duck out of every two-term incumbent since
Truman and has had an enormous effect on the institution of the
Presidency, public policy, and national politics. Critics believe
the Amendment diminishes the presidential office; however, Martin
B. Gold contends it serves to maintain checks and balances central
to the American Constitution while examining Presidents and term
limits, from the spirited debates in the Constitution Convention,
the role of custom in an unwritten Constitution, and the
Twenty-second Amendment itself.
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