The First American Dictator

On January sixth 2009 Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y., introduced the bill, H. J. Res. 5, which, according to the bill's language, proposes "an amendment to the Constitution to repeal the twenty-second article of the amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

By de Andréa

So just what is the 22nd Amendment? In short, it prevents a president no matter how well liked or how good he or she may be for the country, from becoming a permanent dictator of America; a maximum of two terms, 8 years, or 10 years under certain circumstances.

This is a joint resolution between both houses of Congress that would repeal the 22nd Amendment and pave the way for al-Barrack Hussein Obammah to become the first dictator of America.

Some in Congress are hoping to make it possible for Barack Obama to seek not only just a second term in office, but a third and forth or depending on just how corrupt the system is by then, possibly indefinite.

The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary is considering the bill that would repeal the Constitution's 22nd Amendment that prohibits a president from being elected to more than two terms in office.

One of al-Obammah’s henchmen Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y., introduced the bill as nearly the first order of business in congress. H. J. Res. 5,

In the past, some presidents have been critical of the 22nd Amendment, including Eisenhower, Clinton, and Reagan. Of course I don’t believe in their wildest nightmares they thought that an Obama would ever become president of these United States.

In 1807 Thomas Jefferson, however, warned that presidents not bound by term limits could use their "popularity and power to become kings".

"If some termination to the services of the chief magistrate be not fixed by the Constitution or supplied in practice," Jefferson wrote to the Legislature of Vermont, "his office, nominally for years, will in fact become for life; and history shows how easily that degenerates into an inheritance."

However, Presidential term limits, were not "fixed by the Constitution" until ratification of the 22nd Amendment which was passed by congress on March 21, 1947, shortly after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the first and only president to be elected to more than two terms. (He was elected to four). The Amendment was ratified by the required number of states on Feb. 26, 1951.

The 22nd Amendment states, "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."

The Amendment limits presidents to a maximum of eight years in office – or, under unusual circumstances, such as succession following the death of a president, a maximum of ten years in office. Should Rep. Serrano succeed in repealing the Amendment, Obama would be cleared to run for an unlimited number of terms, restricted only by the vote of the electorate.

Serrano's proposal must be approved by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress and ratified by three-quarters of the states' legislatures in order to achieve repeal of the 22nd Amendment.

This is not Serrano’s first attempt to repeal the 22nd Amendment and hopefully not his last. Serrano introduced H. J. Res. 11 to the 108th Congress to accomplish the same purpose in 2003. A similar resolution, H.J. Res. 25, was also proposed the same year and received co-sponsorship from a bipartisan group of six other representatives. In 1987, during Reagan's term of office, Earl Michener, R-Mich., also proposed a repeal of the 22nd Amendment.

This bill is currently in the house ‘Judiciary Committee’, hopefully that is where it will die. The text of the bill is simple; it just repeals the 22nd Constitution Amendment that protects America from a Hitler, a Stalin, or maybe an Obama.

111th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. J. RES. 5
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 6, 2009
Mr. SERRANO introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:
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`The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.’

May God be with us…

de Andréa