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Presidential Precedents and How They Shaped the Office – RedState

One sleep and less than 24 hours until Monday, January 20, 2025, and the second inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump. 

There was a time when presidential term limits were treated similarly to what Congress continues to do with the national debt and Social Security: kick the can down the road for the next Congress to deal with. Our first president, George Washington, made the choice to retire after eight years, and other presidents after him followed his lead by only serving two terms. It took 147 years before the two-term precedent set by Washington would be Constitutionally codified, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his unprecedented and never-to-be-repeated four terms in office was the catalyst. 





The National Archives’s “Amending America” project shows that presidential term limit motions appeared in Congress over the next 140…

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