When the Founding Fathers first drafted the Constitution setting out the ground rules as to who could be a senator or congressional representative, they couldn’t easily have foreseen the advanced life spans to which we have aspired.
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They did foresee the dangers of having a President with divided loyalties, so they required a natural born citizen and excluded the children of foreigners and we can’t even get anyone to uphold that.
Thank you!
Term limits is a very bad idea which suggests that by shuffling the deck we get improvements.
Not only would we strip away those few players who are actually patriotic & capable but the newbies are corrupted before even reaching Washington. Their allegiance is bought by campaign contributions. Any left unsold is captured promptly by lobbyists. One cannot obviate voter responsibilities by term limits. Patriotic small government Americans must clean house locally, promote candidates who reflect our values and recall those who slip through.
If we strengthen the local party organizations by demanding adherence to Constitutional precepts we could even deny people who are not fit to run for the higher offices based on dual or foreign allegiance at birth.