Why was FDR (a pre-1964 dem. (modern day repub.), able to serve more than 2 terms?

[HouseMoat]

He's the only one

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George Washington, our first president, declined to run after two terms. He declared that two terms were enough for any president. So, the 22nd Amendment took effect in 1951; and the office is limited to a maximum of two full terms, or eight years

It was always a "law", just, it was never an "enforceable law", until 1951

[NaultD]

FDR is the definition of big Government. With all his alphabet soup federal government programs and different agencies. With his help from his vise president Dwight D. Eisenhower created "people to people student ambassadors" or p2p made a program that help American children go over seas and experience a world beyond America.

Did it myself and largely progressive because I've went anywhere outside America larger then i could otherwise.

So fdr president terms, it was only tradition holding people back for more terms. Tradition took a back seat with a world war hitting Hawaii and direct aggression in the pacific. 1951 and 22 ed amendment happened.

[goaded]

Because there was no law against it and because he could win elections, passing popular progressive policies. (Also, he was a wartime president.)

The idea that he was a "modern day repub" is ridiculous; they've been trying to undo everything he built ever since.

The question is why was a law passed that stopped Clinton or Obama running for a third term?

[HouseMoat]

Because he was a pre 1964 dem.

And because they were actually decent presidents. They weren't "great" but, they were decent.

Also, have you ever heard of something called "japanese internment camps". Yeah, that was FDR

[goaded]

Internment camps are something a modern Republican president might do, true.

On the other hand, "Roosevelt saw the establishment of a number of agencies and measures designed to provide relief for the unemployed and others." Can you even imagine Trump doing something like that? How about mortgage relief to millions of farmers and homeowners?

FDR established Social Security and established a legal right to collective bargaining through unions.

FDR was a mixed bag, but today's Republicans hate the good things he did and love the bad.

Which party is trying to forgive student loans, and who is fighting it? Which party is trying to increase the proportion of people have health coverage, and which is fighting it? Which party wants to keep Social Security, and which is fighting against it?

[goaded]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otbml6WIQPo

[AviatorTom]

He was very popular, having gotten the country out of the Depression, and World War 2 was happening. In brief, FDR was the right person to be President at the time.

After he died in office, the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution was passed in 1951, which limited future presidents to a maximum of 2 terms.

[NamerOfStars]

Because there was no rule against it at the time; that Amendment was only passed after he left office (well, died; he probably would've kept running just to spite Stassen if he could've.

[Snakeyes7]

It wasn't until after he was president when we decided to only go for two terms.