CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS
William J. Dell – 19 January 2011
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !
I receive a lot of Email about Congressional Term Limits. It is NOT likely that the present Members of Congress will limit their own terms. The best We the People can hope for is to limit the terms of future persons running for Congress.
This is a sample of a Constitutional Amendment that I think We the People might be able to get through the Congress, provided we have enough Statesmen serving. It doesn’t fix the problem immediately, but it would impose twelve (12) year term limits over time. The effect and intent of this Constitutional Amendment is that newly elected members, of both the House and Senate, would be bound by a twelve (12) year term limit. Current members would have to be voted out, retire, or die in office. And, who knows, perhaps some serving Statesmen would honor the will of We the People and not run having served more than twelve (12) years.
No Member of the House of Representatives shall be elected to more than six (6) terms in the House of Representatives, consecutive or non-consecutive. No Senator of the United States Senate shall be elected to more than two (2) terms in the United States Senate, consecutive or non-consecutive. A Member, having served twelve (12) years in either chamber of the Congress, shall be barred from further service in said chamber where they have previously served for twelve (12) years.
This Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of Representative or Senator when this Article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of Representative or Senator, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of Representative or Senator or acting as Representative or Senator during the remainder of such term.
May God Bless and Save the United States of America!
