The constitution has many challenges. One of the main focuses is limiting how long members can serve in office. Author Scott Bomboy writes in his article “Why Term Limits for Congress Face a Challenging Constitutional Path” an accurate description of Republicans and Democrats and their views on Congress members. He uses statistics and the Constitution to explain the issues of term limits. Bomboy includes the statistics “September 2023 Pew Research Center survey, 87 percent of respondents supported term limits for members of Congress,” and “Likewise, in a March 2023 study from the University of Maryland, 83 percent of respondents favored a constitutional amendment to establish congressional term limits.” That being said, 80 percent of Democrats,
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A long debate over legislative term limits goes back to the Articles of Confederation which quotes “no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years,” also in James Madison’s Virginia Plan, the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 called for legislators “to be incapable of reelection.. after the expiration of their term of service, and to be subject to recall.” Moreover, the Federalist Papers also noted pros and cons about term limits. Federalist No. 62 claimed that experience within a term is a public service, “A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.” On the other hand, Federalist No. 53 warned that representatives could thoroughly become the “masters of the public business, and perhaps not unwilling to avail themselves of those advantages.” Inexperienced legislative bodies would be “more apt will they be to fall into the snares that may be laid for me.” That being said, there are a lot of things to do to fix the term limit issue. Let’s start with new
A long debate over legislative term limits goes back to the Articles of Confederation which quotes “no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years,” also in James Madison’s Virginia Plan, the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 called for legislators “to be incapable of reelection.. after the expiration of their term of service, and to be subject to recall.” Moreover, the Federalist Papers also noted pros and cons about term limits. Federalist No. 62 claimed that experience within a term is a public service, “A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.” On the other hand, Federalist No. 53 warned that representatives could thoroughly become the “masters of the public business, and perhaps not unwilling to avail themselves of those advantages.” Inexperienced legislative bodies would be “more apt will they be to fall into the snares that may be laid for me.” That being said, there are a lot of things to do to fix the term limit issue. Let’s start with new