in retiring from the presidential office after their second term, has become, by universal concurrence, a part of our republican system of government, and that any departure from this time-honored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril... The Atlantic Monthly - Page 3771927Full view - About this book
| Lewis Deschler - Parliamentary practice - 1977 - 1046 pages
...(Select Committee on Government Organization). 15. 83 CONG. REC. 5114, 75th Cong. 3d Sess., Apr. 8, 1938. second term has become by universal concurrence a...our republican system of government . . . and that the Congress commends the observance of this precedent. Mr. James M. Mead, of New York, having made... | |
| J.C.Johari - 2006 - 476 pages
...the question of a third term for President Coolidge that any depaiture from the established tradition would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions. The result was the 22 nd constitutional amendment of 1951 which debars a man to seek a third term and... | |
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