Instead of 22nd Amendment, U.S. moves toward separate and ceremonial head-of-state?

Then no one would run for president ever again because there's no glory in being elected to the position of figurehead.

Apparently there is people do it in countries set up that way. It to me seems like a ridiculous waste of tax dollars but someone gets a fancy house and big ole fat government check for sitting on their ass and not doing anything...it isn't hard to find people willing to do that.
 

SsgtC

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Apparently there is people do it in countries set up that way. It to me seems like a ridiculous waste of tax dollars but someone gets a fancy house and big ole fat government check for sitting on their ass and not doing anything...it isn't hard to find people willing to do that.
True. But those were presidencies set up that way originally. The OP here is taking about converting the American Presidency, which has had, at that point, 160 years of tradition built into it and of steadily gaining power. People had come to associate the President with that. Converting midstream suddenly and without warning to what they're suggestions would make the office lose a lot of it's appeal
 

samcster94

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I do think an office like this is possible much earlier, as in after Lincoln. It is a longshot, but given Presidents did little in that era, this might work.
 
. . . I think there's legitimacy to the argument that the president is a lame duck for the entirety of his second term, . . .
But this brings up a real question about American government for we do not have the Strong Congress-weak President model, or then again, maybe we do?

Or perhaps we do have the Strong Congress model in regards to domestic policy, and Congress largely bows out on foreign policy?


* I myself am more comfortable saying a president is a lame duck from the mid-term elections of his or her second term. That is, the last two years and two and a half months.
 

SsgtC

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* I myself am more comfortable saying a president is a lame duck from the mid-term elections of his or her second term. That is, the last two years and two and a half months.
While I broadly agree with your view on it, I also think you have to take it case by case. Some Presidents were able to get legislation passed despite being a lame duck. Sometimes due to their party still having control of Congress or, rarely, being respected by both sides.
 
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