Thursday, October 02, 2008

Term limits

I am not sure that I think term limits are a good thing because they also limit the choices of the people. (Of course incumbents have advantages so that needs to be equalized.) Maybe a good compromise is to limit consecutive terms.
A federal officer is not eligible for re-election for a position after holding that position for the previous 8 consecutive years.
That would basically be in line current persidential term limits, would limit senators to 2 consecutive terms, and limit house representatives to 4 consecutive terms. It would not limit someone from holding those positions more -- they would just have to find something else to do for 1 session. It could encourage going back to the private sector.

Comments?

1 comment:

Peter Pillman said...

Interesting idea. I definitely believe that something must be done to limit incumbent power. Another thought, is two years enough time off for Congressmen? Would changing the law to read "holding a position for 8 out of the last 12 years" be better?