re: Term Limits

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Personally I think not instituting term limits was an oversight on their part.

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I think they were a bit shortsighted here unintentionally of course. I've thought about this before and tried to reason what it was like when these decisions were being made. Watching admittedly way to many documentaries as well as reading the historical texts it was quite a large endeavor to be elected.

If look at someone like John Adams and the YEARS it took him to get anything done with the time for travel and correspondence to make it anywhere. As well as having what was probably a small pool of people educated enough to hold these positions lead them to leave off the term limits.

Just my thoughts on it. Not sure the forefathers could have imagined email and jet planes which would have likely swayed their thoughts as things could theoretically get done faster...

Notice I sad theoretically. If you watch the John Adams HBO miniseries it seems they got things done then at the same place we get them done now.