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 of the president more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of president, when this article was proposed by the congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of president, or acting as president, during the term within which this article become operative from holding the office of president or acting as president during the remainder of such term.
Besides being overusing the word president, this amendment wasn't nearly as important as many of the others I believe because before the two term thing was just a tradition set by Washington, but sometimes more than two terms can do good, if they are a very productive president. If they weren't a very good president then they could just not be reelected the next election. I don't think that people are really that concerned with someone trying to take power such as a king or dictator because the other branches of the government could control them.
I think that it's funny that Nixon tried to repeal this so he could run another time before his scandal. On a side note, I thought it was funny that this is what the Watchmen play off of.
I thought that this was funny because of how popular Roosevelt was
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