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There's been, for a long time, a movement for one six-year term that you could not
and then you could not run for re-election.
The upside of that is that you don't have the spectacle of an incumbent
president having to raise a billion dollars
or doing things because he has to worry about running for re-election
political but
may be not the right thing for the country
the downside I think is much more overwhelming which is that
I would be terrified to see someone elected president and for six years
could do whatever he felt like
with no check on his power over them
impeachment or the one of the Congress not to
pass things he proposes. So
one of the biggest obsessions of the founders was this
they felt the problem was not to give president's power but quite the opposite.
Their formative experience was
monarchies and dictators in Europe. They wanted to make sure that we never had a
president with that kind of power
and that's why they did all sorts of things to try to
restrict the power of the president and one of them was to have a four year term
where
he would have to run for re-election if he wanted to serve any longer.