The Twenty-Second Amendment - Too late

Section 1. 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. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

 Thank you FDR. After Eight years in office with the new super federal power, enough damage has been done by one person. It is simply too much of a temptation to turn the United States into a personal empire.

Usually when I think of a personal empire I think of a man named Suharto. Actually its something me and Obama have in common, we were both ruled by the same person growing up. He lived in Suharto's Indonesia in 1968 and I live in Suharto's Indonesia in 1998. By the time Suharto resigned he had gained a fortune of about $15 billion dollars and had stacked government positions top to bottom with close friends and members of his family.

Without the Twenty-Second amendment could that have happened in the United States? We would like to think not because we are a democracy, but then again, so is Indonesia. Anything is possible, and the best thing we can do to prevent having an emperor is to set up our government to not be able to support one. The Two-term limit should have been official long before FDR, and FDR should have held himself to it anyway.