Posted on 03/04/2016 10:47:25 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Term Limits: If Trump adds term limits to his signature issue of immigration then I’m instantly a Trumpista
Theories abound, thus far, regarding the increased numbers of voters in the republican primaries as compared to the deflating democrat totals. They include everything from democrats not bothering to cast a ballot because Hillary Clinton is the presumptive heir to Obama’s throne, to discontent with their own candidates.
Those of us who have a tendency to sit in the balcony (far outside the Beltway) and observe the antics, bustling and rhetoric of all the candidates, may have arrived at a different viewpoint than the average pundit. Some have touched on it but dismissed the concept with a wave of their better-educated, sometimes supercilious hand.
I am well aware Donald Trump isn’t a conservative. What’s more, I’ve seen no indication that he’s interested in adopting a consistent constitutionally conservative philosophy. He’s the personification of the “random walk” brought to politics.
I would love to see term limits
for both State and federal elected position.
I think 12 years in state senate and house of representatives. on the federal level the same.
governorships should be the same as the presidency 8 years.
if you combine all of this some one can hold public office for 48 years when you combine state and federal represntatiion....so the argument that we would not have anyone with experience does not hold water
Terms limits as the answer to awful pols is a pipe dream. It's the electorate...not the pols.
I think you're half right. The Constitution does not address term limits at all, so term limits MUST be legal because...
I has been a few months since I last read the Constitution, but I don't remember a Constitutional Amendment being "passed" to limit presidential service to two terms.
Can you tell me where that Constitutional Amendment falls within the Constitution?
Unless of course you want to claim that every "law" passed constitutes and amendment... even those found to be "unconstitutional."
Twilight Zone time again?
Whenever one of Trump's supporters gushes that he's going to do this or that there are two things to ask. One, have you checked whether it's still on his to-do list today or has he contradicted the promise since breakfast? Two, when exactly did the office of President become transformed into King or Fuehrer?
Being president is a serious business and the best of them have been very serious men who came into the job with deep experience in how to move masses of people who can't stand each other in the same general direction. Eisenhower proved he could as Supreme Commander AEF Europe. Reagan as governor of California. Truman surprised with the thinnest resume of the necessary honest front man for the hugely corrupt Missouri Democrat machine. I really don't see anything in Trump's resume or the character he's exhibited to make me think he'll be capable to doing anything his followers believe.
Dem’s are voting in primaries for trump as an operation chaos operation. They want to lengthen the time pubs beat up on each other. Working out fine for them. They also want hillary to run against Trump since he makes an easy target.
22nd Amendment. So it is a Constitutional issue. Since an amendment has to be approved by a 2/3rds majority in both the House and Senate, by definition is is veto-proof and no presidential signature is required, so it goes straight to the states for ratification. The only role for a president is to advocate pro or con.
"In May 1995, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, that states cannot impose term limits upon their U.S. Representatives or U.S. Senators." (see: https://ballotpedia.org/Term_limits_in_the_United_States). An attempt by the 1995 Contract with America Republican Congress to pass the necessary amendment failed to meet the two thirds majority necessary.
Term limits require an amendment to the Constitution.
You should want your two words to be “States Convention”
We need a constitutional Convention of the States for the proposal of amendments.
I think Trump should ask Cruz to be his VP—but not for about two weeks.
THEN announce that he will only serve ONE term!
That should lock up Texas. Texas isn’t a given for him. If he had been much closer to Cruz I would say yes. But he has to have Texas. If not ,everything else is moot. Florida should be a given (we’ll know soon), and we’ll know about Ohio soon also.
Bargaining is a phase of the grieving process.
So is denial. But I get your point.
Term limits where tried don’t work
I’d support that. But I’ll go one better … Trump/Cruz ticket and then Trump saying after a year in office, “Well, gee … that was fun. But I’m going to step down.”
Haven’t been tried at the national level. I say give it a try.
Congressional term limits can come from us … the people … by imposing an option of Article 5 that allows the states to go around Congress. There is a movement to use this option to impose term limits.
Neither has communism. Doesn’t mean we should. Voters are to blame. They keep pulling the lever
Communism and term limits are apples and oranges.
Law of unintended consequences
Repeal the 14th, 16th, 17th amendments. This gets rid of a huge batch of abusive USSC decisions, including Roe, and the bogus “incorporation doctrine.” And Anchor Babies. And the income tax and the poular election of Senators.
Wrong.
The USSC ruled that a STATE cannot term-limit its members of Congress.
A Constitutional amendment limiting their terms would be Constitutional. A Constitutional amendment cannot be unconstitutional.
The word “schools” is not in the Constitution, and should never be placed there. All federal involvement in school is unconstitutional and should remain so.
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