Posted on 10/18/2016 2:19:39 PM PDT by cotton1706
GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump announced on Tuesday his intention to push for a constitutional amendment setting term limits for members of both chambers of Congress.
Speaking to a crowd at a campaign rally in Colorado Springs, Trump spoke about his desire to “break the cycle of corruption” in Washington, D.C. if he elected president. The GOP nominee told the crowd it was time to “drain the swamp” of special interests. He recited portions of his newly unveiled ethics reform proposals and then told the crowd another major announcement which is part of his plan.
“If I am elected president, I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress,” Trump said, as the room erupted in cheers.
Way to Go Donald Trump! Maybe he will push an Article V Convention of States too!
He can certainly provide moral leadership and facilities for people to come together under Article V.
Nothing stops a President Trump from proposing or reviewing work product from convention delegates.
Don’t let anyone get off with saying it will lead to a runaway convention. That’s a falsity because it takes 3/4s of states to ratify any amendment which means 38 states necessary.
It also means 13 states can stop any amendment. And as of now we have 12 solid blue states. But as happened under Reagan, a lot of the blue states can go purple. And under a President Trump these purples can go red enough to ratify especially with a strong populist leader like President Trump.
And for America’s sake, WE MUST NOT ALLOW DC TO HAVE STATEHOOD for reasons that should be obvious.
Keep in mind that the wording is crucial. When drafting an amendment, the drafters MUST LOOK INTO THE FUTURE and think how people can abuse any wording. There will be attempts to reinterpret, so the wording has to be so clear.
Don’t need Congress for a constitutional amendment. Read Article V of the Constitution.
Also SCOTUS would have to go along with a new constitutional amendment addressing term limits.
As long as such a new amendment is written clearly enough, SCOTUS cannot rule the Constitution as unconstitutional. Well, they could I guess but enough of us would have images of several dangling Ceaucescus on the Mall.
All federal judges, district, appellate, and Scotus!
Are you being serious? Other people have been advocating Congressional term limits for a long time.
But what have they done about it? There’s no way to know if they even mean it. In fact, it’s a safe bet they don’t.
Trump you can believe.
Term limits are badly needed.
Congress AND bureaucrats.
Article V
Term Limits, yes, but there is another step that needs to be made.
We need an amendment to the Constitution that requires each member of the Electoral Congress to cast their ballot for how each of their Congressional District voted, not state level winner take all.
Senators who are each states member of the Electoral Congress should be required to vote how their state legislature decides during a special legislative session between election day and the the Electoral College Vote.
After all aren’t Senators supposed to represent the interest of each state, and not multinational corporations, who fund their campaigns?
Only then will we see an accurate representation of the the American People, reflected in the office of President.
As a result the massive voter fraud in large urban district will be limited to just their district, and the President will truly represent the will of the People of the United States.
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