"Administration". So far as we're concerned, the government remains the same; only those who administer it change.
Yeah, at various times, and often with bipartisan support (because, really, it's a *bad* idea - it creates a lame duck president who does all sorts of strange things in his final two years because he has zero accountability, and was created by a Republican congress still bitter about FDR), members of congress have introduced bills to start the process of repealing that amendment - the only way to do that is to create a new one, so the process is identical - but it's a long and arduous process and these bills have not gone anywhere.
And, sure, no president is going to deny that he'd like to serve more than two terms, but there would be no point in their trying - even if they were still in office when such an amendment were ratified, it would not probably not apply to them, just as President Truman was not affected by the 22nd Amendment. More than that - they would look greedy and that would turn off many voters.
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Date: 2008-01-16 06:50 pm (UTC)Yeah, at various times, and often with bipartisan support (because, really, it's a *bad* idea - it creates a lame duck president who does all sorts of strange things in his final two years because he has zero accountability, and was created by a Republican congress still bitter about FDR), members of congress have introduced bills to start the process of repealing that amendment - the only way to do that is to create a new one, so the process is identical - but it's a long and arduous process and these bills have not gone anywhere.
And, sure, no president is going to deny that he'd like to serve more than two terms, but there would be no point in their trying - even if they were still in office when such an amendment were ratified, it would not probably not apply to them, just as President Truman was not affected by the 22nd Amendment. More than that - they would look greedy and that would turn off many voters.