Ellis, One of the things about all of that is that the American colonies were to a large extent self governing before the revolution. We were nominally ruled by the Crown and Parliament, but we weren't very interesting. Nobody was making a lot of money off of us and we were generally let go with only general guidance from Britain. That in general was what kicked off the war. Britain started trying to tighten up their rule and get us to work the way they thought we should. A lot of that was so that they could get more money out of us. So we went to war to keep the rights we had received, more from neglect than anything else. And in fact the first government we tried under the Articles of Confederation was really based on that. Each colony had its own way of doing things and they wanted to keep on doing them that way. So we were really trying to not change the way things were done, at least for us. To many people the King was just a foreigner who was nominally in charge.

And at first the Senate wasn't elected. The Senators were selected by the states in any way they wanted. For a long time the Senate was known as a rich man's club. The main way to get in was to be rich and know the governor of the state.

And up until Roosevelt the 2 term limit for the president was a precedent, not a law. George Washington set that precedent because he didn't want to be a king. When Roosevelt was elected for a 4th term it threw a scare into a lot of people that we might wind up with a hereditary monarch and they ran with the term limit amendment.

Bill Gill

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