Term Limits-will watch the video. I feel inclined toward them.
On the other hand, in our state, term limits means that some really good people have been replaced with shall I say -less desirable people. In addition, it seems that the new and clueless are even more susceptible to the lobbyist than to what the people want.
So term limits have been imperfect, but a start.
To take a business analogy: If all employers and employees were honest, there would be no fraud.
Term limits attempts to address a problem that is really a failure of integrity, honesty, and character-a result of deterioration due to constant war on our culture-sort of—hard for me to explain. Anyway — a start.
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I agree, term limits WOULD be good. BUT ONLY IF ACROSS ALL STATES at the same time. (Very hard to accomplish)
From Wikipedia:
The Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) to the United States Constitution sets a limit on the number of times an individual is eligible for election to the office of President of the United States, and also sets additional eligibility conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.
Prior to the ratification of the amendment, the president had not been subject to term limits, but George Washington had established a two-term tradition that many other presidents had followed. In the 1940 presidential election and the 1944 presidential election, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first president to win a third term and then later a fourth term, giving rise to concerns about the potential issues involved with a president serving an unlimited number of terms. Congress approved the Twenty-second Amendment on March 21, 1947, and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification. That process was completed on February 27, 1951, after the amendment had been ratified by the requisite 36 of the then-48 states (as neither Alaska nor Hawaii had been admitted as states), and its provisions came into force on that date.
The amendment prohibits any individual who has been elected president twice from being elected again.
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If we didn't have the Twenty-second Amendment Obama would probably still be our President so it works both ways where an undesirable politician can be replaced with a more desirable candidate that actually represents the people and honors the office.
very true, in Virginia the gov serves one term and then tries to launch into the senate where they can fester for years. they treat it like a like a graduating class.