Jim0001 Loc: originally from Tennessee, now Virginia, USA

I would amend the 22nd and add term limits for Reps and Senator, plus the attached suggestion.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/17/porter-the-17-word-constitutional-amendment-we-need-now-to-avert-another-biden-disaster/

Liberty Tree

Term limits will never happen

Jim0001 Loc: originally from Tennessee, now Virginia, USA

Not if the electorate doesn't keep pushing for it!!!!

Kevyn

Term limits take power from the voters to keep someone they like in office. What is needed is simply robust campaign finance reform.

Jim0001 Loc: originally from Tennessee, now Virginia, USA

Honest elections keep someone voters like in office too!

JR-57 Loc: South Carolina

We can agree on campaign finance reform.

Kevyn

And allow them to eject crooked lying scumbags, case in point 2020.

keepuphope Loc: Idaho

90 year olds with cognitive problems should not be serving period. And if your not a millionaire when you go in and after multiple terms your a multi millionaire you should not be in. Their salaries don't add up that quickly if they are honest.

LostAggie66 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)

A good article. Your idea is also good for us. The question is can the amendment be introduced and ratified in a reasonable amount of time.

LostAggie66 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)

Yes that is needed. Campaign reform should be initiated.

LostAggie66 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)

Yes I am in favor of this as the 28th amendment

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

I agree with age limits but if the case is to reject a second term by Biden it will not happen. Truman was President when Presidential term limit was imposed but Truman was exempt because it changed while he was in office thereby grandfathering him under the old rule.

Actually the idea of a Citizen Congress is not truth. Often once elected the person seems to stay in office until well past retirement age in many instances. I remember my mom saying that when Chet Holifield went to Congress he debated on whether to become a Democrat or a Republican and choose Democrat because there were more Democrats in his precinct which gave him a better chance to win. My mom graduated from High School with Cam Holifield, Chet's wife, in 1919 and were life long friends so I know that to be a truth.

A Congress of Citizens would be one that was constantly in a state of radical change without any of them staying for more than two terms. Any other Congress would and is composed of people who have made their life employment that of politician. It would also be advisable to end employment of all civil service employees when a new President is elected. Since there is a vast number of civil service employees the hiring of those positions could be assigned to persons elected to Congress. Thereby assuring that no civil service employee will overstay his welcome either.

I am certain that the men who set up our government never thought of lifetime politicians. If you will recall many of the Founders were wealthy to begin with but many died in poverty after the war the establishment of our government.

SeaLass Loc: Western Soviet Socialist Republics

As they always say the devil is in the details.

1) Would the age limits still apply if in the next 20, 40, 60 years life expectancies jump by 10, 20 or 30 years? And if life expectancies dropped by 10 years, then what?

2) Under the proposal someone 75 years old running for a first term could serve till they were 83, so to be fair could a 79 year old run if they were limited to one term?

3) Since a VP stepping into the presidency can serve for up to 10 years, would a 75 year old VP then be able to serve till they were 85, or would they be ineligible for reelection if they were over 79 years?

I do agree that congress would be adamantly opposed to limiting their own terms of office, Senator D. Feinstein being a good example, as was S. Thurmond.

Jim0001 Loc: originally from Tennessee, now Virginia, USA

2024 is coming!!!!

Jim0001 Loc: originally from Tennessee, now Virginia, USA

And Sen. Byrd (WVA), And McConnell (KY) and Pelosi (CA), etc.