Presidential age upper limit

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The average lifespan in the 1700s was under 40.  When the minimum was set at 35 that was just another expression of how we didn't believe that anyone -but- the oldest white property holding men should be in charge.

That’s a little misleading. A white, property owning male who was 50 years old in 1789 had a life expectancy of 71 years. The ‘life expectancy under 40’ factors in high infant and child mortality. The low life expectancy for adults in general was heavily skewed by the number of people who spent short, unhappy lives harvesting turnips and digging cesspits. The richers did much, much better.



Boru