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8428. THIRD TERM, Dangers of.—[continued].

If some period be not
fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice,
to the services of the First Magistrate, his
office, though nominally elective, will, in fact,
be for life; and that will soon degenerate into
an inheritance.—
To Mr. Weaver. Washington ed. v, 89.
(W. June. 1807)