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SUNDAY, AUG. 12, 1951

‘Thomas Jefferson in 1951'—

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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Threw Support Behind 2 - - Term Presidential Amendment WE HAVE Im

CHAPTER FIVE NOTE. This 1s the fifth installment of a series in The Sunday Times on Thomas JefFEB. 26, 1951, the| ferson, bringing his political amendment that Thomas! of 1961. the focus of the issues Jefferson regarded as second — em —

in importance only to a Bill| worthy of Intrigue, of bribery,

| of force, and even of foreign Senta, Decame 8 Dat of the! interference. It will be of great

Nevada's approval of the 22d pion 1 ety SM amendment, restricting the presi- governed by a Galloman or an dency to two elected terms, shouid|

Angloman. make the great Virginian rest] “Once in office and possesseasier in his grave at Monticello., ing the military force of the “A bad edition of a Polish! Union, without the aid or King,” Jefferson called the presi-| check of a council, he would dency under the Constitution,

By J. R. WIGGINS | Managing Editor, The Washington Post | |

in| \mot be easily dethroned, even a letter to John Adams, Novem-| if the people could be induced ber 13, 1787. | to withdraw their votes from “He may be elected from four| him.” years to life,” he complained. | 1 2 His anxieties were diminished by the precedent of Washington's!/ings, in part, in a létter to Genretirement, but Jefferson never eral Washington, written on wandered far from the view he ex-]| | May 2, 1788, listing his chief obpressed in this letter: |jections to the new constitution. “Reason and experience prove to us, that a chief magistrate, so continuable, is an office for life. “When one or two generations shall have proved that this is an office for life, it becomes, on every occasion,

of a bill of rights, and his second:

President. This I fear will make that an office for life, first, and then hereditary . . . “However, I shall hope that before there is danger of this

HE REPEATED his misgiv-!

His first objection was the lack 'of President,

el ha

75 YEARS AGO—The crowning achievement of Thomas Jefferson's life was unanimous atop pe!

change taking place in the office the good sense and of our countrymen, “The perpetual re-eligibility of the will make the changes necessary

free spirit to prevent it.” He was still “perpetual re-eligibility President,” Donald, written

protesting

in a letter to Mr. A. from Paris in

the Declaration of Independence on July

1788. He did not expect an amendment “at present” not ‘“‘see that anybody has objected to it on your side of the water.” But he feared it would be “productive of cruel distress to our country, even in your day and mine.” He elaborated his fears of for-

the of the

4, 1776. eign

by now, stitution

avoid sc differences about the

influence

because he did presidency.

on a Still,

perpetual

Jefferson

was

anxious to have the Coneager to

approved and

hism over

“I apprehended too,

total

abandonment

this ‘or document.

that of

other

the the

principle of rotation in the of-

fices of President and Senator, will end in abuse,” he wrote to E. Rutledge, from Paris, July 18, 1788. Still he ‘hoped that “there will, for a long time, be virtue and good sensé enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.”

He feared the defect of ‘perpetual re-eligibility of the same President” would probably not be corrected during the life of George Washington, - in a letter to William Carmichael, Aug. 12, 1788. “His merit,” Jefferson wrote, ‘has blinded our countrymen to the danger of making so impprtant an officer re-eligible.” Virginia's plan for “rendering the President incapable of serving more than eight years, in any term of 16,” was referred to by Jefferson in a letter written to William Short on Sept. 20, 1788.

Jefferson said he liked better la plan discussed in the convention “that he should be elected for seven years, and incapable forever after.” He was ‘‘glad to see that three States have at length considered the perpetual re-eligibility of the President as an article which should be amended,” in a letter he wrote to Madison Nov. 18, 178R,

THESE opinions were not al-| tered by Jefferson's experience in| public life in later years. From his first discussions of the Presidency to his latest reflectfons on it, Jefferson was opposed to unlimited tenure. His desire for a constitutional amendment to fix the limit diminished when ‘precedent seemed to have furnished an adequate check. It is plain enough, from his every recorded utterance, that the precedent set by Franklin Delano Roosevelt would have revived all his apprehensions and refreshed his ancient anxieties, The 22d ‘amendment after 164 years, a limit on

tionary figure, ‘desired

into the charter.

erations, that their Presidency become in this respect edition of a Polish King’ 195 United Feature

will

Jefferson's views on of foreign powers contribution te school system,

NEXT: recognition and his great America's free

provides, the Presidency which Thomas Jetferson, more than any other revnluwritien On this score, he can at last rest easy in his grave.

Americans, after all these gen-| have written guaranty not “a bad

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