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To: A.A. Cunningham
You'd have to amend the Constitution.

I find it amazing SO MANY people do not understand "term limits" is not going to happen.

SCOTUS already ruled it unconstitutional and the process for term limits is called an "election"

13 posted on 12/12/2009 8:37:50 AM PST by Popman (Election 2010: Congress, your pink slips are coming ...............)
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To: Popman

And, if you amend the Constitution you will have changed what SCOTUS must test against.

An Amendment to create term limits then would be the foundational law of the land. How can SCOTUS find unconstitutional what the people define as constitutional? Seems to me that would be a fuse on a powder keg.

It’s time to take back the country.


19 posted on 12/12/2009 8:52:08 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: Popman

You’re correct that the SCOTUS did rule against Congressional term limits in the 90s by a vote of FIVE to FOUR!

I’m not giving up on the possibility.

At the time 23 states voted 2-1 to change term limits

Maybe the next few years will see a makeup change in the Court and another attempt at sanity.


23 posted on 12/12/2009 8:58:48 AM PST by JimVT (Oh, the days of the Kerry dancing, Oh, the ring of the piper's tune)
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To: Popman

This world, including FR, is full of people who don’t pay attention.


28 posted on 12/12/2009 10:01:45 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: Popman
No SCOTUS ruled that the individual states can't impose term limits. (A “Dred Scott” quality ruling as far as I am concerned!) However a Constitutional Amendment would only be stopped by the ability to get it passed.
30 posted on 12/12/2009 11:57:16 AM PST by Reily
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