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  2. 1940 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    The two-term tradition, although not yet enshrined in the Constitution, had been established by George Washington when he refused to run for a third term in 1796; other former presidents, such as Ulysses S. Grant in 1880 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 had made serious attempts to run for a third term, but the former failed to be nominated ...

  3. Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The amendment was a response to the four-term presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, which amplified longstanding debates over term limits.. The Twenty-second Amendment was a reaction to Franklin D. Roosevelt's election to an unprecedented four terms as president, but presidential term limits had long been debated in American politics.

  4. The American Political Tradition - Wikipedia

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    Hofstadter's introduction argues that the major political traditions in the United States, despite contentious battles, have all "shared a belief in the rights of property, the philosophy of economic individualism, the value of competition ... [T]hey have accepted the economic virtues of a capitalist culture as necessary qualities of man."

  5. The Lonely Crowd - Wikipedia

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    "In Western history the Middle Ages can be considered a period in which the majority were tradition-directed. But the term 'tradition-directed' refers to a common element, not only the people of precapitalist Europe but also among such enormously different types of people as Hindus and Hopi Indians, Zulus and Chinese, North African Arabs and ...

  6. AP United States History - Wikipedia

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    The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide the same level of content and instruction that students would face in a freshman-level college survey class. It generally uses a college-level textbook as the foundation for the course and covers nine periods of U.S. history, spanning from the pre-Columbian era to the present day.

  7. Anatomical terminology - Wikipedia

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    Anatomy is often described in planes, referring to two-dimensional sections of the body. A section is a two-dimensional surface of a three-dimensional structure that has been cut. A plane is an imaginary two-dimensional surface that passes through the body. Three planes are commonly referred to in anatomy and medicine: [1] [2]: 4

  8. Third Party System - Wikipedia

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    As with the preceding Second Party System era, the Third was characterized by intense voter interest, routinely high voter turnout, unflinching party loyalty, dependence on nominating conventions, hierarchical party organizations, and the systematic use of government jobs as patronage for party workers, known as the spoils system.

  9. Traditionalist conservatism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In particular, it is unclear what traditionalist conservatism is, where the term comes from and how it is connected to the disparate subjects mentioned. Please help improve this article , possibly by splitting the article and/or by introducing a disambiguation page , or discuss this issue on the talk page .