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To: alicewonders
How do we get term limits passed

Congress would have to amend the constitution. Those power hungry aristocrats would have to "want" to vote themselves out of office after a time. And forget 20 years...10 years at most.

6 posted on 08/21/2007 5:42:01 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (No to nitwit jesters with a predisposition of self importance and unqualified political opinions!)
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To: Tenacious 1

no, it can be done on the local and state level...get a petition drive going for your state, and cut the politicans right out of the decision


7 posted on 08/21/2007 5:49:09 AM PDT by joe fonebone (Nothin' from Nothin' leaves Nothin')
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To: Tenacious 1

Unfortunately I don’t think there will ever be term limits at the federal level since it takes a two thirds majority of both houses of Congress to send an amendment to the states. They will never get that large of a vote. Gingrich and company at least brought this up for a vote in 1995 but it failed. Even if every Republican in the House had voted in favor it would have fallen far short of the 2/3 number.


17 posted on 08/21/2007 6:42:35 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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