Talking About Politics: Would You Support a Bill That Would Allow a U.S. President to Serve for Life?
Today’s winner of Silliest Question on Quora is…. Would you support a bill that would allow the President of the United States to serve for life? Short and sweet version: No. Short and not-so-sweet version: Hell, no. Longer, informative, and hopefully educational version; No, I would not support a bill that would allow anyone , regardless of party affiliation, to serve as President of the United States for more than the two-term limit set down in the Twenty-Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In case you have never read that amendment, which ironically was proposed in 1947 and ratified in 1951 at a time when there was a Democratic President and a Republican-controlled Congress, states: 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office...