Republicans couldn’t defeat President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he ran for a third and fourth term. But in 1947, two years after the Democratic president died of a stroke at his Warm Springs, Ga. retreat, the GOP-led Congress passed a resolution to make sure a three-term presidency never happened again.
“Too long occupancy of the Presidential office always makes for danger of dictatorship,” said Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin. Rep. Adolph Sabath, an Illinois Democrat, was quoted in the New York Times as saying Republican backers of the two-term limit had privately called it “an anti-Roosevelt resolution.
“The Supreme Court’s willingness to uphold the ban on access to firearms for domestic abusers will save many hundreds, if not thousands, of lives … Amid dueling visions of firearms rights, and the battle over ‘history and tradition,’ in a country plagued by gun violence, it is important to remember that the Declaration of Independence gave Americans a right to ‘life, liberty, and happiness.’ People arguably also have a ‘right not to be shot.
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