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Because there was no law against it back then. George Washington stopped at being elected two times because he didn't want to die in office giving the impression he was a king, so he stopped at two. And every other president wanted to follow in his footsteps until Roosevelt came along. After his fourth term is when they made it a law to only allow a president to be elected two times.

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