Term limits amendment

[gladiator8085]

I realize that the POD would most likely be before 1800, but it mostly concerns the 20th century so I put it here. WI the US founding fathers had gotten a term limits amendment passed which limits the POTUS to 2 or 3 terms only? What impact would this have on the depression and/or WWII?

 

[Torqumada]

No need to pass a term limits amendment, if you are the founding fathers and put it directly into the Constitution.

Torqumada

 

[Yellow Dog]

First, agree with Torqumada. Founding Fathers could have written this directly into Section II.

But this is a interesting question: The FF may have had a completely different perspective to our two-term assumed max (with one exception). Maybe they would have written in a three term limit on the theory that they would be creating a term-limited semi-king (but not called that) for George Washington and assumed future leaders of his stature.

What might the future have held?