RE: Presidential age upper limit
July 12, 2024 at 12:41 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2024 at 12:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 12, 2024 at 10:46 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: For what it’s worth, I can remember once reading that, in Shakespeare’s day, only 1 in every 10 Londoners born lived to see the age of 40. I don’t know how much that changed 200 years later, and in a different part of the world. I suspect it might have been a bit better, but not by that much.
It remained the same for the majority of the population over that period, but major gains were made by and concentrated in wealth so that, for example..a good amount of the founders and first reps ended up making it to their 80's. I cant recall the title, but I read a great book about how, in their time, that added to the socio-political gravitas they would hold. Being in charge for two full generations of your constituency is a hell of a perch.
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