Single Six-year Term for President: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments..., 92-1, on S.J. Res. 77..., October 28 and 29, 19711972 - 247 páginas |
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... matter seriously - not for any political ends but in order to determine what combination of term length and eligibility for reelection will bring to this country a President who is at one and the same time responsive to the feelings of ...
... matter seriously - not for any political ends but in order to determine what combination of term length and eligibility for reelection will bring to this country a President who is at one and the same time responsive to the feelings of ...
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... matters . In addi- tion , Congress and the public often view anything the President does in the second half of his term as suspiciously partisan and not really worthy of respect . As a result , important programs are dismissed as ...
... matters . In addi- tion , Congress and the public often view anything the President does in the second half of his term as suspiciously partisan and not really worthy of respect . As a result , important programs are dismissed as ...
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... matter but no action was taken . In more recent years , a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee held hearings on a proposal made by Democratic Senator Edward R. Burke in 1940. Wendell Willkie in the 1940 campaign favored a single term of eight ...
... matter but no action was taken . In more recent years , a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee held hearings on a proposal made by Democratic Senator Edward R. Burke in 1940. Wendell Willkie in the 1940 campaign favored a single term of eight ...
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... matter was fairly discussed in the convention , and to my full conviction , though I cannot have time or room to sum up the argument in this letter . There cannot in my judgment be the least danger that the president will by any ...
... matter was fairly discussed in the convention , and to my full conviction , though I cannot have time or room to sum up the argument in this letter . There cannot in my judgment be the least danger that the president will by any ...
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... matter which concerns the character and conduct of the great office upon the duties of which I am about to enter . I feel therefore that in the present circumstances I should not be acting consistently with my ideals with regard to the ...
... matter which concerns the character and conduct of the great office upon the duties of which I am about to enter . I feel therefore that in the present circumstances I should not be acting consistently with my ideals with regard to the ...
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Página 169 - No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
Página 157 - ... not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country ; and that in withdrawing the tender of service, which silence in my situation might imply, I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest; no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness ; but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both.
Página 21 - By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Página 157 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Página 4 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled (twothirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Página 22 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 158 - It is from within, among yourselves, from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition, and inordinate thirst for power, that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.
Página 16 - In the discharge of this trust, I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself...
Página 135 - It has been a maxim in political science that Republican Government is not adapted to a large extent of Country, because the energy of the Executive Magistracy can not reach the extreme parts of it.
Página 16 - The danger is that the indulgence and attachments of the people will keep a man in the chair after he becomes a dotard, that reelection through life shall become habitual, and election for life follow that.