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What if George Washington had decided to remain president for so long as the people would re-elect him, which given his popularity, would be the rest of his natural life?

This is not a Washington-as-dictator scenario, just one where he never resigns and keeps getting legitimately re-elected until he dies, like, for example, Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada, who remained PM for the rest of his life (with the exception of the 5 years of the Mackenzie government, which fell between Macdonald's second and third terms).
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