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Newspaper Article, Clinton (Missouri) Daily Democrat, Resolution of Hate
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Records of the National Committee Against Limiting the Presidency
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OCTOBER 10, 1959 Other Voices Resolution Of Hate (This column reprints editorials and other statements of interest to our readers. Views ex- pressed are not necessarily those of The Auxiliary. Contributions welcomed.) S ENATOR THOMAS C. HENNINGS, JR., is author of a proposal to amend the Constitution which would do away with the two-terms limitation on the presidency. Also in favor of eliminating this restrictive amendment are President Eisenhower and former President Truman. The two-term amendment is the "hate Roosevelt" restriction, proposed by the Re- publican 80th Congress. It would never have been voted into being by the people, but it was finally ratified by enough state legislatures to become the twenty-second - amendment. State legislatures, by the way, are about as far away from the voice of the people as you can get, in our book. They are the voice of pressures, and the pressures were on to get the Roosevelt smear measure into the constitution. The first individual to be hurt by it is President Eisenhower. He is by statute a "lame duck" president with the consequent dimunition of prestige and political power in his office. Practically nobody wants the twenty-sec- ond amendment any more, but it is very difficult to get a part of the Constitution repealed. It stands as a good object lesson on "make haste slowly" if we consider changing our basic law. Clinton (Mo.) Daily-Democrat