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Question: Should presidents be term limited to one term?
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kyc0705
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« on: September 19, 2022, 09:40:58 PM »

No, but this is part of a broader question that I have varying (though maybe not that conflicted, now that I think about it) thoughts on.

This is more a note on presidential term limits in general than the original question, but I want to say that the American presidency is a sufficiently visible and powerful position that it should be subject to some external limit on how much one person can become entrenched in it. But I don't want to give that as my sole argument, because I'm not sure if this is a belief that I've really worked through to arrive at, or it's just a more immediate instinct that lacks basis: after all, can we really say that the two-term limit has done anything to affect the growth of the presidency? And, as been pointed out upthread, that kind of rationalizing isn't actually why the current two-term limit was added after FDR.

In any case, I agree with those who have said that if there was a single-term limit, four years would be too short.
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