Jack of Harts

The Twenty-Second Amendment instituted a two-term limit on the Presidency. Term limits had been considered back when the Constitution was written, but did not make the final cut even though most of the signers agreed with the basic idea of the Presidency rotating through people. George Washington set the tradition of only serving two terms, and almost every President after him followed that tradition, either willingly or unwillingly. FDR of course did not follow it and won election four times. After he died and WWII ended, there was a quick push to pass an amendment to make certain another life-time tenured Presidency did not happen.