I’d be in favor of limiting every President to ONE term.
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15] (Introduced 01/04/2013)
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30 of 50 (or is it 57) governors are Republican. This must be a constituent service item to file this bill.
A counter-proposal: An Amendment modifying life-time tenure for federal judges to make they stand for a retention vote every 4 years (held in the off-year cycle election). This would mitigate the problem of insulating judges from having to run for office, yet would allow the voters to eject a judge who sufficiently offended them with his/her rulings.
I think Democrats do this every time they get a second-term Democrat in. I know they did it for Clinton also. In this upside down world we live in though...
Damned communist bastards sure love their dictators.
Boehner is probably scampering over to the White House as we speak for a private discussion on the bill.
I like to see the election of Senators go back to the state legislatures. And add in, term limits for members of Congress.
It looks real. H O W E V E R ...
Article V of the Constitution clearly indicates that, while either the states or Congress can propose amendments to the Constitution, ONLY the states, NOT Congress, have the power to ratify it. And thanks to Obama’s efforts to divide the country, I just don’t see such a proposed amendment to the Constitution getting the necessary 3/4 states support to ratify it, particularly since the ratification process isn’t necessarily based on the popular vote which would make it easier for the Democrats to work voting fraud.
Also, since Article V is arguably the best kept secret of the unconstitutionally big federal government, I’m not so sure that DC lawmakers really want voters to find out about Article V.
Well if zero gets another SC justice, they can give zero the chance to run again. The court will simply redefine zero’s first two terms as one term. This is not so much a stretch considering what Roberts did last year on 0-care. .
Article V, or 5, in the US Constitution sets forth how to
amend the Constitution.
There are 4 ways:
1. Proposal— 2/3rds of each House of Congress and it is
ratified by 3/4ths of the State Legislatures.
2. Proposal—same as #1 2/3rds, each House of Congress
while ratification is done by 3/4ths of the State’s holding
Constitutional Conventions.
3.Proposal —A Special Constitutional Convention is called
by Congress, at the request of 2/3rds of the states.
Ratification is done by 3/4ths of the State legislatures.
4. Proposal— same as #3 while ratification is done by
3/4ths of the State Special Constitutional Conventions.
Informal Methods:
1. basic legislation— laws which fill in the basic meaning
of the Constitution. Like control carried by airlines, they
did not have planes in 1787 but they did have trade.
2. presidential actions, in carrying out foreign policy or
using troops without declaring war.
3. Supreme Court decisions, like Brown v. Board of
Education.
4. Political parties— how we elect people to congress and
for pesident. How Government is operated, by political
party. Parties are not found in the Constitution.
5. Tradition— the way things are done. Until the 22nd
amendment Presidents did not serve over 2 terms
and until the 25th amendment was passed the Vice
President served out the rest of the deceased president’s
term as the president NOT as an acting president.
IOW... they can’t do it without 3/4 of the States legislatures voting on it favorably.
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This is almost always the first (or one of the first) bills to show up in a new Congress. Not to worry, this has been going on for years.
Not needed.
Precedent has been set - The US Constitution does not apply to Barack Obama.
LOL! NO CHANCE.
Gingrich Productions just sent an e-mail regarding this issue.
Looking forward to the confrontations on this matter.