RD TERM FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COT OMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS THIRD SESSION ON S. J. Res. 15 INT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES RELATING TO THE TERM OF OFFICE OF PRESIDENT AND S. J. Res. 289 JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT SEPTEMBER 4 TO OCTOBER 30, 1940 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1940 CONTENTS Page Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson, Boston, Mass Coudert, Frederic R., lawyer, New York, N. Y Archer, Gleason L., president, Suffolk University, Boston, Mass. Creighton, J. W., president Hastings College, Hastings, Nebr 69 162 217 247 4 61 264 Daniel, Hawthorne, author__ 182 Davis, Jefferson Hayes, Chicago, son of former president of Confed- 180 Lee, Edward T., dean, John Marshall Law School, Chicago. 187 288 Leonard, Bishop A. W., Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, 313 Lewis, William Mather, president, La Fayette College. Masterson, William E., Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.. McCormick, Vance C., former chairman, Democratic National Com- Peters, Paul O., Citizens' Nonpartisan Committee, St. Louis, Mo. Pettengill, Samuel B., former Representative from Indiana__ 35 201 Schurman, Jacob Gould, former Ambassador to Germany. 45 261 Sizoo, Rev. Joseph R., St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, New York, 151 THIRD TERM FOR PRESIDENT WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1940 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met at 10:30 o'clock, pursuant to the call of the * chairman, in the caucus room of the Senate Office Building, Senator Edward R. Burke, chairman, presiding. Present: Senators Burke (chairman), Van Nuys, Austin, and Wiley. (The subcommittee had under consideration S. J. Res. 15 and S. J. Res. 289, which are as follows:) [S. J. Res. 15, 76th Cong., 1st sess.] JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the term of office of 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 hereby 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, in lieu of those provisions of article II, section I, which relate to the term of office and election of President. "ARTICLE "SECTION 1. The term of the office of each President elected after the date of this section takes effect shall be six years; and no person who shall be elected to the office of President, or who shall exercise the duties of the office by succession, after the date this section takes effect, shall be eligible for reelection. "SEC. 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress." [S. J. Res. 289, 76th Cong., 3d sess.] JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, relative to terms of the President of the United States Whereas the present course of world dictatorships jeopardizes the democratic processes of governments; and Whereas the tenets of democracy are likely to be endangered through the continuance of one man in the highest executive office of the United States: Therefore be it 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 hereby 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: |