How did Washington establishing the precedent of two terms show intellectual foresight?
The Founding Fathers had a great fear of a powerful executive, and found a war over it. There is not much of a difference between a president who sticks around for 5 or 6 terms and a constitutional monarchy. Plus, it helped to move the nation forward. He knew he would not always be there, and the country needed to move on without him. Many people actually wanted him to be king, but he knew better. He is also the only president to be unanimously selected by the electorial college. O, he established the precedent of two terms by refusing to run again. Roz – Maybe you should brush up on your Constitution, because the two-term limit was not established until 1951 in the XXII Amendment, which is only 6 years after FDR died. Congress proposed the Amendment in 1947, and it took until ’51 for the states to ratify it. Your answer would be correct if you said that FDR created the constitutional term limit because he held onto the office like a pope. All other presidents served a maximum of 2 ter
