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[Rooster Cogburn]

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second...

[HICKMAN]

Hail King Obama: President for life

In 1807 Thomas Jefferson, however, warned that presidents not bound by term limits could use their popularity and power to become kings.

"If some termination to the services of the chief magistrate be not fixed by the Constitution or supplied in practice," Jefferson wrote to the Legislature of Vermont, "his office, nominally for years, will in fact become for life; and history shows how easily that degenerates into an inheritance."

[DodgebyDave]

Originally Posted by IndyBassin

Hail King Obama: President for life

In 1807 Thomas Jefferson, however, warned that presidents not bound by term limits could use their popularity and power to become kings.

"If some termination to the services of the chief magistrate be not fixed by the Constitution or supplied in practice," Jefferson wrote to the Legislature of Vermont, "his office, nominally for years, will in fact become for life; and history shows how easily that degenerates into an inheritance."

All you have to do is take a look at Indiana representation.


Birch Bayh -->Evan Bayh

Julia Carson-->Andre Carson

[tyler34]

he'll screw stuff up enough that even his apostles will not want unlimited terms.

[HICKMAN]

maybe some good can come out of this... and eventually we impose term limits on Congress as well

[karlsgunbunker]

Senator and Congressman have become life terms.