bones101proof, on 08 November 2012 - 06:15 AM, said:
This may be just a rumor, but I would doubt it couldn't be possible, ya know? I mean, first black president? If I recall, the rules (traditions) required that presidents possess three things: 1. Must be an American citizen, 2. Must be 35 years of age minimum, and 3. Must be white. If these traditions can be altered, I don't see why the control group couldn't throw in a new breaking of the rule-Can only serve 2 terms maximum. Ya know?
Really? Whenever was that a requirement? Obviously, when these things were framed, it would be automatically assumed that any President
would be White, but even if that was still a requirement, surely no one's going to try to say that it should still be adhered to should they?!
* Anyway, has everyone forgotten Franklin D. Roosevelt?
It says on the Pedia,
The two-term tradition had been an unwritten rule (until the
22nd Amendment after Roosevelt's presidency) since
George Washington declined to run for a third term in 1796, and both
Ulysses S. Grant and
Theodore Roosevelt were attacked for trying to obtain a third non-consecutive term.
So it seems to have only been an official rule since 1951.