Term Limits

Title: Term Limits
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics | Words: 244 | Pages: 1.0 (approximately 235 words/page)

Term Limits

Whether or not Congress should have term limits has been a long debated question that is proposed as an amendment to the qualifications clause of the Constitution. There are excellent arguments on either side of the issue; unconstitutionality versus limiting power and diversity versus seniority are just a few. First are the arguments that term limits are democratic. The advocates of this point of view believe that creating term limits would not only add diversity …showed first 75 words of 244 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 244 total…say it’s unconstitutional, but we do have term limits on the presidency. Also, advocates want to Congress members from staying in a long time. However, most don’t stay in over twelve years anyway and if the current members in seniority all leave who will be able to lead with enough wisdom and discernment? Either way you go someone’s not going to be happy. If only we could be unhappy and right, though.

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