How do you think the country would have evolved if the Constitution required that:
a) A presidential, congressional, or Supreme Court candidate could not have served before in any of those three roles. An incumbent president could not run again: the President gets the four years in office and that's it.
b) The amount of money the candidate can spend on electioneering and so forth has a hard cap. Exceeding the cap invalidates the candidate.
If a Vice President or some other officer assumes the Presidency in an emergency situation, his term would last four years and another election would held after that. Presidential elections would therefore not always occur on years which are multiples of 4.
How do you think the government would have evolved with rules like this making sure that officers won't spend all their time trying to get themselves re-elected? It sounds like something the Founding Fathers would think of to ensure that one president doesn't effectively become president for life (in effect, they're imposing a one-term limit).
ACG