Author : Martin B. Gold
Release : 2019-11-27
Genre : Political Science
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The Twenty-Second Amendment and the Limits of Presidential Tenure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Twenty-Second Amendment and the Limits of Presidential Tenure write by Martin B. Gold. This book was released on 2019-11-27. The Twenty-Second Amendment and the Limits of Presidential Tenure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.