Term Limits

Term Limits Links

• Why I oppose Term Limits Site examines arguements against term limits and provides alternatives to term limits.
  
• Civic Values Mailing list debate about term limits.
  
• Support Term Limits for Congress Provides a way to contact your representative about supporting term limits for Congress.
  
• Term Limits Temptation (The New American) An extensive collection of arguements against term limits. Decrys term limits as "wholesale restructuring of our federal system."
  
• Washingtonpost.com: Term Limits Special Report Chart showing when state legislature term limits will go into effect.
  
• Citizens for Term Limit Awareness Supports term limits in the US Congress in order to alleviate career politicians. Includes position statement, articles on term limits, and historic quotes.
  
• Worth Repeating (The New American) Quotes from the Founding Fathers against term limits.
  
• Term Limits in Politics Short argument against term limits.
  
• Term Limits Take Effect (Washington Post) Report on Term limit movements across the country, on a state and national level.
  
• Are Term Limits Working? Discussion of the effect current term limits are having on at the state level. By Bob Bucher of the Independence Institute.
  
• Congress for Life? Discusses the problem of careerism in Congress and a case for term limits.
  
• U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995). This case explains why it is unconstitutional for a state law to require term limits for US Congressional representatives.
  
• Voters Reject Legislator Term Limits (USA Today) Mississippi became the first state Tuesday to refuse to impose term limits on its legislators, four years after voters rejected similar restrictions for all state elected officials. [election 99 coverage]
  
• Citizen Legislators Congressional Caucus Foundation Advocates term limits for members of the US Congress. Site provides news releases, educational resources, members and directors, and statements from citizen legislators currently serving.
  
• Real Term Limits: Now More than Ever Presents arguements for term limits and rebuffs several anti-term limit arguements.
  
• Oregon Term Limits Site presents a history of Term Limits in Oregon, political cartoons and links.
  
• Term limits prevailing (St. Petersburg Times) Tampa mayor falls victim to term limits when voters reject an act repealing the law. (Election 2000 coverage.)
  
• Missouri Term Limits Ballot Measure goes to U.S. Supreme Court (CNN.com) The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of a Missouri law that requires notices on ballots that identify candidates who do not support term limits.
  
• U. S. Term Limits National activist organization which asks candidates for the U.S. Congress to sign a pledge limiting themselves to no more than three terms in the House or two terms in the Senate. [Relies on imagemaps for navigation.]
  
• Senate Faces Term Limits (The Backgrounder) Article discussing Congress's 1996 term limit initiative. Includes "10 Misconceptions about Term Limits." (by Kenneth Weinstein / The Heritage Foundation)
  
• What Term Limits Do That Ordinary Voting Cannot This article contests the argument that we have term limits in the form of elections.
  
• Reform Party Platform: Term Limits Discribes the third party's official stance on Term Limits.