DBWI: what if George Washington wasn’t president for life?

What if instead of being President for the rest of his life. Washington decided to step down after 8 years in office? How much would the United States change? How would the world change?
 
I’m partial to a President Hamilton. If Washington even mentioned that he might step down early, Hamilton would have been much more careful with his dueling habit, and Burr likely wouldn’t have killed him. And, of course, Jackson the First would find a way to become President, even if he is farther down the line than number 3. The man was relentless.
 
We'd probably see John Adams as President, as Washington's VP and natural successor - though I could see Thomas Jefferson. It would be interesting to see Adams get it, considering his son John Quincy Adams became President after Andrew Jackson's short and disastrous presidency in OTL, I wonder if we see an earlier Adams dynasty emerging? (seriously, who in their right mind gets into a dual over the National Bank!? Biddle wasn't even a dualist, but he got damned lucky when President Jackson's gun jammed. Jackson may have been driven, but what a goddamned idiot!). JQA's presidency was one of the highlights of the pre-Civil War United States, with his creation of a national road system, observatory and university. I wonder what an earlier President Adas could have achieved?
 
What if instead of being President for the rest of his life. Washington decided to step down after 8 years in office? How much would the United States change? How would the world change?

One may be interested, perhaps, in a POD around the time of Yorktown; Washington was badly injured during the battle and nearly died-only after spending two weeks in a coma did he finally recover, and even then, we now realize that his trauma had a gradual deleterious effect on his mental health; by the time he died he had begun to hallucinate that the ghost of Benedict Arnold, of all people, was haunting his home! I know it's a fairly common POD these days, but it's a hell of an interesting one: had Washington never gone thru such trauma he might well have stuck to only two four year terms-as some had hoped he would-as opposed to deciding to serve for life as part of some "Crusade of Liberty".

On one hand, we might not have had J.Q. Adams and his ingenious national road system as well as the public universities.....but on the other hand, we could have avoided the horribly disastrous James Tillman administration and all that it wrought(race riots, rampant corruption-including racially-tinged corruption such as redlining, etc., and a damn close call with atomic war versus the Saigon Pact in '63, and so many other unfortunate things), too, so it's kind of a double edged sword here.
 
I think you'd see a different balance of powers; in OTL people were much more loath to pass extensive executive powers to a figure that was hard to replace (barring impeachment!) and so the Presidency has filled much more the role of a guarantor of the constitution given to the most prominent and respected citizen outside government, rather than an office with extensive powers over governance, while real executive power lies elsewhere. If the Presidency were limited to short terms, that might not be the case...
 
Really people? You DO know the Constiution merely ALLOWS for Presidents-for-life. Sure, it's customary for the Senate not to envoke their power to petition the states to call for Federal elections, and we've never had enough states call for one at once to get a quarum in the Electoral Collage, but we can still do it if things get bad. We broke a similar "rule" about the President never leaving American territory back in 1878
 
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