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Should we limit the terms of congress via petition?
the tenth amendment states The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
since we are the people, should we limit the shelf life of politicians in the US Congress
I personally think that members of the house of representatives should have the same shelf life as the president (8 years - 4 elected terms) and the Senate should have the limit of 20 years or (2 terms and a midterm election for ousted members.) If we get this on a ballot in your state and pass that law, the people through the states they live in could effectively limit the congress that still has a 10% approval.
its early ... 15 years* for senate
im just thinking maybe by limiting the terms we clean out the left overs from the 70s and 80s that are still holding down seats, and allowing others to run for that office. yes there will be corruption...because the ones passing the laws... dont make the corruption that they are committing illegal -_-... but doing something is better than just sitting back and letting the same old stuff happen over and over.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Oh, My God. You asked the $64.00 dollar question and all of the comments are on point! "Get rid of same old stuff that happens over and over again. Ties shirts and pants that don't earn a living, they just help cover the *** that wear them" and no pension after just eight years. No way. More people like the person that asked this question should raise their heads. Term limits! Works. Guillani wanted to be king of NY because of 9/11, put a wolf in the woods.
Source(s): WTTW NEWS. Illinois. You said a mouth full. - Anonymous1 decade ago
Whats the point, you still will have the same amount of corruption. You think limiting the time a person states in office will happen? That person will just be replaced by another corrupt individual. Since all politicians get a lot of there money from corporations. And corporations and people's best interests conflict. I don't see how such a political system can work for the people. Since its the corporations that are actually paying the money. As we all know, politicians don't have to keep campaign promises. .
- louriaLv 44 years ago
i think of we already have term limits. each member of the residing house of Representatives runs for reelection each 2 years. in case you do no longer merely like the pastime they are doing, vote against them. Senators have a term of six years, however an identical applies. Vote against those you do unlike. however incumbents in many cases win reelection, I incredibly have seen them get defeated. It happens. This previous election in Illinois, Representatives Joe Walsh, Robert Dold, and Judy Biggert have been all defeated. In 1998, Carol Moseley Braun became into defeated in her reelection bid to the U.S. Senate. This became into after she defeated the incumbent, Alan Dixon, in 1992. This twelve months, Elizabeth Warren defeated the incumbent, Scott Brown, in Massachusetts. In Indiana, Mourdoch defeated the incumbent, Richard Lugar in the Republican Senate regular after which became into defeated in the typical by making use of Donnelley, his opponent. as long as incumbent legislators sense accountable to the electorate that they could face, we've term limits.