SUPREME COURT SUPPORTS TERM LIMITS FOR LEGISLATORS IN CALIFORNIA
Although the US Supreme Court declared these laws unconstitutional as far as federal legislators are concerned, many states are proceeding to implement term limits for their own legislatures. This article examines the historical background to rotation in office, the political and constitutional issues ...
Oregon voters passed term limits on their legislature and statewide officeholders in 1992 by 70% of the vote. Two termed out legislators sued the voters of Oregon in a case that made its way to the Oregon State Supreme Court. In December 2001, the court ruled that the term limits law v...
SALEM - When the state Supreme Court declared term limits unconstitutional, it didn't just swing the door back open to current members of the House and Senate. It also created an opening for nearly three dozen former House and Senate members who'd already been shown the door. But with ma...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook term limit (redirected fromTerm limited) n.oftenterm limits A provision, as in a state constitution or city charter, that restricts the number of terms an elected or appointed official may serve. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edit...
Term limits group threatens legislators with new initiative ; Supporters say they could put measure on the ballot this fallBeth Bow Staff writer
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These citizen legislators they reasoned would neither be driven by reelection concerns nor beholden to special interests. They would be a more representative cross-section of people (Detroit Free Press, October 12, 1992). Term limits opponents feared that instead of rectifying the ills of special ...
These DC Children Are The Reason We Need Term Limits We started with Poster Boys for Term Limits but then ran into Marcy Kaptur, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi and several other obviously qualified females for term limit posters. "Children" fits because, although they are aged in years, their ...
t happen. You can have term limits for the Premier and for the Speaker, you can have term limits for certain people in the system,” Skelton noted. “What we look at is the US system but if you take the US senate, there’s no term limit. Where there are term limits is the ...