-—agree-there are already “term limits”—two years for reps, six for senators—if if voters are dumb enough to elect someone for , effectively -a lifetime—so it will be—
—and , since most legislation is effectively written by staff members anyway , if that is not fixed , nothing would change because of “term limits”—
We need a constitutional convention to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.
The problem with term limits, evidenced by Obama’s last-term mischief, I’ll mention Gov. Brown’s last term too, is the following.
Term limits give last-term office holders a golden opportunity to get away with stealing and abusing legislative powers, the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress letting lawless Obama get away with stealing state powers and doing all kinds of unconstitutional things with those powers for example.
Repealing the 17th Amendment would also greatly reduce problems with illegal aliens illegally voting.
The 16th Amendment can disappear too.
The problem with Congress is the committee system. It creates mini-dictators over committees and over each house, thereby nullifying representative governance.
I’d like to drain the swamp for real. Limit the House and the Senate to one staffer in DC per member. Put the executive agencies in flyover country. Put the staffers in flyover country. Let them depend on telephones and teleconferences to stay connected to each other - but put them among us so they stay connected to the American people.
Here’s the ‘cure’:
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AMENDMENT XXVIII (’Federal-State Rebalancing’)
To restore the foundational structure of State Legislatures to Congress, the following amendment is proposed:
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Section 1. Senators in Congress shall be subject to recall by their respective state legislature or by voter referendum in their respective state.
Section 2. Term limits for Senators in Congress shall be set by a vote in their respective state legislatures but in no case shall be set less than two terms nor more than three terms.
Section 3: The seventeenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
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Those who break their oath to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution should be subject to punishment and removal.
I’ve been calling for term limits for about 30 years now. When you can no longer become fabulously wealthy by “serving”, only those who truly wish to SERVE will seek office. Think about it; why would an attorney who could earn a half million a year without breaking a sweat want to spend 20-30 years in a job that only pays $170,000 with some nice perks, in a high cost-of-living environment? And how does he come out a multi-millionaire?