No Term Limits for Bush (or Clinton) - P2P-Zone

floydian slip · 15-06-05, 01:09 AM

House Judiciary Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.)has sponsored legislation to amend the Constitution by repealing the 22nd Amendment, which confines the President to two terms.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/...H.J.RES.24.IH:

Gutrguy · 15-06-05, 01:19 AM

I like the idea of limiting how many times a person can be elected as President, but i feel that it should be 3 terms instead of 2.

miss_silver · 15-06-05, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by floydian slip

House Judiciary Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.)has sponsored legislation to amend the Constitution by repealing the 22nd Amendment, which confines the President to two terms.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/...H.J.RES.24.IH:

OUCH! that's not good. One thing I envy about your country is the 2, 4 year terms. If it were so in my country, we might would have escape the sponsership scandals.

malvachat · 15-06-05, 03:04 AM

I'm of the mind to think two terms is enough.
I suspect this is because it's going to take longer
than they thought to get "Arnie" in.

http://www.arnoldexposed.com/articles/usa_today.htm

Mazer · 15-06-05, 09:14 PM

If presidents were elected differently then it might not be a problem. It's the divisiveness of the election process that makes term limits necessary. What if a President was elected three or four times by a slim majority? Eventually the part of the country that didn't vote for him would give up, either by not voting at all or by openly attacking the presidency, calling it a monarchy and denouncing not only the President also but other half of the country that elected him. Term limits stir things up every eight years, and by changing our allegiences so often we don't get stuck in our old ways.

If there was a way to prevent political parties from polarizing the voters then we could all reach a consesus, and then having the same president for more than a decade wouldn't be such a big deal.

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malvachat My eyes are now open. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oxford uk Posts: 1,409	I'm of the mind to think two terms is enough. I suspect this is because it's going to take longer than they thought to get "Arnie" in. http://www.arnoldexposed.com/articles/usa_today.htm __________________ Beer is for life not just Christmas

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15-06-05, 01:19 AM	#2
Gutrguy Semiblind Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 1,857	I like the idea of limiting how many times a person can be elected as President, but i feel that it should be 3 terms instead of 2.

15-06-05, 09:14 PM	#5
Mazer Earthbound misfit Join Date: May 2001 Location: Moses Lake, Washington Posts: 2,563	If presidents were elected differently then it might not be a problem. It's the divisiveness of the election process that makes term limits necessary. What if a President was elected three or four times by a slim majority? Eventually the part of the country that didn't vote for him would give up, either by not voting at all or by openly attacking the presidency, calling it a monarchy and denouncing not only the President also but other half of the country that elected him. Term limits stir things up every eight years, and by changing our allegiences so often we don't get stuck in our old ways. If there was a way to prevent political parties from polarizing the voters then we could all reach a consesus, and then having the same president for more than a decade wouldn't be such a big deal.