The Real Story Behind Presidential Term Limits
The WallBuilders Show
Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday Foundations of Freedom Thursday here at The Wall Builders Show. |
| 0:11.4 | Thanks for joining us where we take on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical and constitutional perspective. |
| 0:16.6 | On Fridays, we love getting your questions. |
| 0:18.7 | So be sure and send them in radio at wallbuilders.com. That's radio at wallbuilders.com. I'm Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton. Guys, we've got first questions coming from Ryan. And he asked why exactly. Are presidential term limits in place? Should it be the people's right to vote someone in as many times as they want. Thank y'all for all you do. |
| 0:38.7 | God bless. Okay. So presidential term limits, guys. Now, Dad, it sounds like he's been listening |
| 0:44.8 | to your conversation about Congress in the Senate. That's right. And so now, Rick, he might be in |
| 0:52.5 | trouble for a little bit right now I I know because he didn't |
| 0:57.3 | ask what I thought he asked why they're in place so I could I could tell you why they're in |
| 1:02.3 | place but that's a different question from what I think about them so and by the way that's |
| 1:08.4 | exactly right I have not been a fan of term limits. |
| 1:11.1 | I think the people are the, the term limit if they want it. |
| 1:14.9 | Now, there's here's a caveat that's different from back when they originally did it. |
| 1:20.5 | So what's interesting is, and this goes back to really World War II, we've only had one president who served more than two terms. |
| 1:27.3 | That was Franklin Roosevelt World War II. He was there long before World War II. We've only had one president who served more than two terms. That was Franklin |
| 1:27.8 | Roosevelt World War II. He was there long before World War II, died in World War II. He was |
| 1:34.8 | elected four times as president and died in his fourth term. And it's interesting that the guy |
| 1:40.3 | who championed this amendment was his vice president from that fourth term that was harry truman so |
| 1:46.2 | harry truman finished out fDR's fourth term and then he had his own term so he had a didn't serve a full |
| 1:53.5 | late years but he's the guy who did this and it was interesting the the logic that they gave back at that |
| 1:59.2 | point in time. |
| 2:08.3 | They argued for limited power and that if you had someone who stayed in too long, |
| 2:13.3 | that it could end up being like Hitler or Mussolini or others that are just in. Now, here's where I think that the difference is with kind of a presidential term limit. |
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