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Conrad Black: Should There Be Term Limits for Leaders of Democracies?

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Conrad Black: Should There Be Term Limits for Leaders of Democracies?
(L-R) Canadian Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Gov. Gen. Lord Athlone at the First Quebec Conference in Quebec City in August 1943. CP Photo
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There is an almost constant debate in many Western countries about term limits for elected politicians. In general, these discussions are more frequent in non-parliamentary countries, where the executive does not sit in the legislature and many legislative districts tend to retain the same representative, or at least the same party, for many elections.

Conrad Black
Conrad Black
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Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.