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Franklin D. Roosevelt ställde också upp för en tredje mandatperiod trots att det egentligen stred mot USA:s konstitution.
Det stred mot traditionen men inte mot dåvarande konstitutionen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_United_States_presidential_election
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Throughout the winter, spring, and summer of 1940, there was much speculation as to whether Roosevelt would break with longstanding tradition and run for an unprecedented third term. The two-term tradition, although not yet enshrined in the Constitution, had been established by George Washington when he refused to run for a third term in 1796;
Regeln om att bara sitta två perioder kom till med det 22 tillägget till konstitutionen och vann laga kraft 1951
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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The Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) to the United States Constitution limits the number of times a person can be elected to the office of President of the United States to two terms, and sets additional eligibility conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.[1] Congress approved the Twenty-second Amendment on March 21, 1947, and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification. That process was completed on February 27, 1951, when the requisite 36 of the 48 states had ratified the amendment (neither Alaska nor Hawaii had yet been admitted as states), and its provisions came into force on that date.
Franklin D Roosevelt var president mellan March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945 så det gällde inte han. Då annat än att han bröt mot en tradition och inte konstitution.