The Twenty-Second Amendment and the Limits of Presidential Tenure
A Tradition Restored
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, publi…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4985-6267-6
- EAN: 9781498562676
- Produktnummer: 33148328
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 29'269 KB
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By Martin B. Gold
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