Why was the 22nd Amendment passed so quickly after FDR's death?

[DevotedDemocrat]

Playing Devil's Advocate here but: If FDR was so beloved as history make s him out to be, why was the 22nd Amendment put in place so soon after his death?

[ElectionsGuy]

I'm guessing here but it probably has to do with people worried about presidents getting too much power over time, becoming corrupt. Also, I don't mean to sound douchey or anything here, but this probably belongs better in the history board.

[Link]

Playing Devil's Advocate here but: If FDR was so beloved as history make s him out to be, why was the 22nd Amendment put in place so soon after his death?

I don't follow.  Just because people may have liked FDR (I don't know I wasn't there) doesn't mean they thought every president after him was going to be the same.  I mean a lot of those people were alive during some awful and corrupt presidential terms.

I like the fact the Senate Dems used the nuclear option... I'm not going to like it when Republicans use it.  Even if you like someone and let them have a free hand when they are in office you don't know what is going to follow.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

There is also the fact that FDR died in office.  His failing health was an open secret that no was willing to call him out on.  Had FDR stepped down after three terms and not sought reelection in 1944, there probably would not have been a 22nd Amendment.

[Lurker]

Many were of the impression that FDR had broken an "unwritten rule" by serving more than two terms, which no other president had done before him. The amendment was passed to prevent this from reoccurring. Previously there might not have seemed much need for this law.

(Of course , FDR certainly wasn't the first president who ran for a third term: Grant, TR and Grover Cleveland all tried and failed).

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The GOP didn't want an imperial prez. Dynasties back then like Kennedys, Rockefellers, Tafts were inevitably seeking the prez. They wanted to put an end to it. How fitting was it that O Douglas served on SCOTUS his justice, for a long time, just like he did, as prez. And Stevens, the replacement was a long time justice.

[sdu754]

Maybe, after looking at what had just happened in Europe, people thought that curbing potential power was a good thing.