I'm a Canadian and I must say that I agree with you guys 100%. Though most 'claim' otherwise, I know that if it wasn't for the greatness of the USA, Canada would not be the way we are. I'm constantly in awe of American patriotism. We don't have NEARLY the level of proud Canadians as you have proud Americans.
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dmm said:
Two-term limit on the president.
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Something that I found out is that in the USA there is no restriction on how many terms someone can run for president. FDR was president for 3 terms. It's an unofficial tradition. Apparently, it comes from George Washington. When his second term was up, he was asked to run for a third but said that the purpose of creating the US was for the leadership to change, to allow others to take the lead. Since then, it's been the tradition that no one would run more than twice. In FDR's case, it was because we (you) were in the middle of WWII that caused him to run for a 3rd term.
Though it is true that no one has ever Completed 3 full terms.
Not to split hairs, this is just an interesting point of trivia.