Reason and experience prove to us, that a chief magistrate, so Continuable, is an office for life.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish Kings, should have for ever excluded the idea of one Continuable for life.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
My fears of that feature were founded on the importance of the office, on the fierce contentions it might excite among ourselves, if Continuable for life, and the dangers of interference, either with money or arms, by foreign nations, to whom the choice of an American President might become interesting.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson