22nd Amendment

[Gaybaby94]

I've heard some stuff on my college campus that the 22nd Amendment might be repealed. This amendment restricts the presidency to 2 terms. Repealing this would allow more than two terms for the President. Personally I think for the current President and his policies, it would be absolutely great. You all know of my extremely liberal reputation, but I just want to know what you all think on this. Should the 22nd Amendment be allowed to be repealed?

[Lost in the Echo]

No, I think 2 terms of 4 years is good enough, and pretty fair. I don't see the need to change that, and I honestly don't see that happening.

[StoppingTime]

The odds of an amendment being repealed is extremely low and unlikely to begin with. More so is one that many people would not agree with, so no, I think it's only liberal radicals who would want this repealed.

*le sigh*

[Lyra Heartstrings]

That may be the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Two terms is fine, and I don't see why anyone would want it repealed.

[Jess]

Eh I don't think it will ever be appealed. I think most people wouldn't agree with this at all...2 terms is good enough, I think.

[Human]

unless there is a majority vote asking for more terms, then i don't think so as other candidates will want a chance

[Professional Russian]

If i have to deal with obama for 8 more years im moving to sweden. Vodka and Guns. Good deal

[Troy35216]

i think if there was a chance an amendment to the U.S. Constitution was going to be repealed it would have been mentioned on the news or something. hearing it "on my college campus" doesn't give me a lot of confidence that it's a real thing. I heard on my high school campus that the Sloppy Joe's are made out of cats but i don't think that's true either. anyway you will never get enough republicans who want to take a chance that obama can servre more than 2 terms and you will never get enough democrats who want to take a chance that bush could serve more than 2 terms so it will never happen.

[Gigablue]

I would say yes. As long as the people like their president, he or she should be able to continue. Eight years is a rather arbitrary limit. Here in Canada, there is no limit on how long you can be prime minister, and I personally think that that system is better.

[Twilly F. Sniper]

I honestly say it has some likelihood, if the people like their president alot as Gigablue pointed out.

[Erasmus]

I would say yes. As long as the people like their president, he or she should be able to continue. Eight years is a rather arbitrary limit. Here in Canada, there is no limit on how long you can be prime minister, and I personally think that that system is better.

I agree. If people keep voting for the same person, what's wrong with them staying in office for as long as the public likes them?

[MisterSix]

He just needs to officially start a war to stay in for more than 2 terms... No I take that back. Doesn't your congress need to declare it

[Taryn98]

There's a lot of talk about putting term limists on House and Senate members, I haven't heard anything about taking away term limits from anyone.
And to ammend the Constitution it takes 2/3 majority of both the House and Senate, then get approval from 3/4 of the States. I don't think anything regarding any topic at this time could get that kind of support. America is too divided.

[Professional Russian]

He just needs to officially start a war to stay in for more than 2 terms... No I take that back. Doesn't your congress need to declare it

Its a "Conflict" unless congress declares war.

[PerpetualImperfexion]

The 22nd amendment is there to stop the executive branch from gaining too much power. Don't change things that don't need fixing. That's what actually leads to problems.

i think if there was a chance an amendment to the U.S. Constitution was going to be repealed it would have been mentioned on the news or something. hearing it "on my college campus" doesn't give me a lot of confidence that it's a real thing. I heard on my high school campus that the Sloppy Joe's are made out of cats but i don't think that's true either. anyway you will never get enough republicans who want to take a chance that obama can servre more than 2 terms and you will never get enough democrats who want to take a chance that bush could serve more than 2 terms so it will never happen.

I highly doubt the liberal news stations would mention it. I on the other hand did hear about it from the news(fox).

I would say yes. As long as the people like their president, he or she should be able to continue. Eight years is a rather arbitrary limit. Here in Canada, there is no limit on how long you can be prime minister, and I personally think that that system is better.

Often times it isn't that we like the president we vote for as much as it is that we don't like the other candidate. This would be less of a problem if we had more than two dominate parties... Or better yet take washington's advice and forget about parties altogether(yeah right..)

[Zenos]

I honestly say it has some likelihood, if the people like their president alot as Gigablue pointed out.

Liking a president is not sound enough grounds or good enough reasoning to repeal the 22nd amendment for any president.

There was,is and always will be "sound wisdom" in limiting a president to two terms and only two terms.
Don't think that just because this is the 21st century and Obama is seen as being sooooooooo cool by lots of us youth(yeh i don't like him nor his socialist policies),that such wisdom as limiting a president to only 2 terms is not sound and logical.It's something that has stood the test of time for 200 years!

[ackmedslayer556]

they should keep it

[Zenos]

He just needs to officially start a war to stay in for more than 2 terms... No I take that back. Doesn't your congress need to declare it


Yes actually Congress needs to vote on whether to go to war are not .

And no even if he did get us into another war that does not mean he's be able to stay in power for 2 more terms.

[TheBassoonist]

Doesn't your congress need to declare it

Not necessarily. The United States hasn't had an officially declared "war" since World War II. Congress has to issue a declaration of war to have an official war, but the President can exercise his/her power as Commander in Chief to send the military to different countries. It's just not a "war."

And as for the topic, we shouldn't be discussing removing term limits on the President. We should be discussing placing term limits on members of Congress.

[Anonimi]

Often times it isn't that we like the president we vote for as much as it is that we don't like the other candidate. This would be less of a problem if we had more than two dominate parties... Or better yet take washington's advice and forget about parties altogether(yeah right..)

two dominate parties is impossible in the first past the pole system you use, simply impossible, if you see your candidate getting so few votes that its clear that he will never win, people start voting on other parties, here in the netherlands we have a different system with like, 20 parties, and they all vote based on how many seats they have got from our votes

[Mortal Coil]

Personally I think that eight years is fine. We don't want the government stagnating.

[Wrestler0821]

I doubt it will be repealed.

[HowlingSnail]

I find it odd that it's there in the first place. If people don't want a president for more than 2 terms, they won't elect them, but if they want them for a 3rd or 4th term, they should be allowed to elect them.

[Professional Russian]

I find it odd that it's there in the first place. If people don't want a president for more than 2 terms, they won't elect them, but if they want them for a 3rd or 4th term, they should be allowed to elect them.

Its there to avoid one president being in office forever. There is one president I can think of that had 3 terms(I think its FDR someone correct me if I'm wrong). Everyone else had just 2 because the people voted them out

[Zenos]

Its there to avoid one president being in office forever. There is one president I can think of that had 3 terms(I think its FDR someone correct me if I'm wrong). Everyone else had just 2 because the people voted them out

No they have always had 2 terms.

But the president used to be in office for 12 years per term.

Now as we know they get 4 years,and people wonder whey they can't get nothing done.

[TheBassoonist]

No they have always had 2 terms.

But the president used to be in office for 12 years per term.

Now as we know they get 4 years,and people wonder whey they can't get nothing done.

Washington set the precedent for two terms. It's in the Constitution for a four year term. After FDR was elected four times, the 22nd Amendment was ratified to limit the President to two four year terms. I don't know what you're talking about with 12 year terms. If you're being sarcastic, it didn't come across.

[Zenos]

Washington set the precedent for two terms. It's in the Constitution for a four year term. After FDR was elected four times, the 22nd Amendment was ratified to limit the President to two four year terms. I don't know what you're talking about with 12 year terms. If you're being sarcastic, it didn't come across.

0_0 your actually right, that means the doc i watched on the president was wrong it said he was the last preident to get 12 year terms.

[PrimedPenguin]

I don't think they would repeal the amendment as two terms of four years is quite enough. Sides it took a lot to get the liquor prohibition repealed so I can see how much effort it would take to get the 22nd amendment repealed.