vimothy
yurp
But that's the presidential pardon system that's at fault, not the ter two-term limit per se.
Disagree with this. The presidential pardon is simply the mechanism here, the incentives to corruption are created by the term limit: the high cost of impeachment (because the term limit is nearly reached), and the low cost of private goods (because the incumbant is relieved of the need to seek office again).
Regarding the presidential pardon, I do see that it is easily abused (especially when combined with term limits), but I'm not convinced in need be all bad. It could be used to pardon ordinary, non-rich, non-connected people with stupidly regressive sentences, where appropriate.