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Subject MAXIMUM ONE TERM LIMIT for all elected positions at all levels of government: Local, State, & Federal!!!

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Honestly, I believe the 22nd amendment should be removed. ONLY if we can solved the issue of voter fraud. What is the purpose of the 22nd amendment anyways? To keep a man helping the nation out from serving more than two terms and vise verse?

Does not seem logical to me if you are leaving the responsibility to the informed people of the united states to vote in a democratic manor. Emphasis on informed.

You have to remember in a republic, where the government is limited by what it can and can not do should be enough to keep a dictator from taking power.

Personally, I believe we should go back to the President just being a military leader, authorized by congress. The executive power would reside with the states. Split up the power among many, which reduces the chance of tyranny. Also, it gives more ability to resist constitution infringing laws.

The legislative branch can still do it's thing where it passes new progressive laws to protect the people from unforeseeable infringements on the people's rights.

The judicial system would only take cases of state vs. state or state vs. citizen.

If that did not make sense sorry.
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Original Message edit: I mistakenly titled this thread "Abolish all term limits..." which is perhaps incorrectly worded, but certainly misleading as to my intention. I propose that there be a maximum of one term limit for all elected positions. What do you think?

This, I do believe would have manifold benefits at the individual level and at the societal level.

First of all, this is the main tenet behind this proposal:
Elected office, aka "Politician" is not a career and it should not be.

If term limits were abolished, many of the power-hungry, selfish, self-styled "elite" would no longer even run for elected office. Abolishing term limits would also encourage more truly civic-minded individuals to run for office, for the original purpose, "to serve."

The glory and the power, and the temptation to allow corruption would be drastically lessened, which would result in less nepotism, less wasteful spending, less no-bid and backroom dealings using taxpayer monies.

The population at-large would be forced to pay more attention to politics, and fulfill civic obligations, duties, and responsibilities.

Different types of people would run for elected office at all levels: local, state, and federal, and this in turn would perhaps open up new avenues of thinking and re-instill the most traditional of American values: ingenuity.

You might say, but yes, someone who is terribly un-qualified for the role might be elected!
To which my reply is two-fold:
1. Do you not think this has ever happened before?
2. If someone is massively unqualified for an elected position, then as soon as their term is over, they will be replaced, guaranteed, with the abolition of term limits.

You might then also say, but the people who are most qualified would not have a chance to remain in office, thereby doing much good for the nation!
To which I would reply:
There are certainly others just as good, if not better than this "King Arthur" who would suffer from abolition of term limits. Again, politician/elected official should not be a career.

I am interested in what you have to say. What do you think about this proposal?

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