Should Congress Have Term Limits

One issue that has been at the forefront of debate for a number years in the United States is whether members of congress should have set term limits. I am advocating that members of congress ought to have term limits set forth limiting the amount of time they can serve. One reason I am urging this action is because I feel a large number of congress members have served for so long that they are no longer working toward representing the voices of the people, but rather working for their own self-seeking desires. Though twenty-two states have enforced some type of term limits, I feel as though it should be a matter of national law enforced in all fifty states. I am also advocating this position because incumbents continue to dominate, not allowing for new individuals who may not have as much funding to participate within the race, but do indeed have superb ideology.
One of the most primitive reasons that term limits should be set into place it due to the fact that many members in congress have been in Washington for so long they have stopped working for the people they should represent and consequently have begun working for themselves. Once they have been in office for such a long period of time they often will become power hungry and no longer actually seek to understand and work on resolving the issues that need resolved. Instead their focus is on becoming re-elected. According to Stanley Caress, setting term limits would encourage them to actually work for the people realizing that after they step out of …show more content…
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