Federal Term Limits Are Constitutional

FEDERAL TERM LIMITS ARE CONSTITUTIONAL
FDR was the only president to ever serve more than two terms. Every president since G.Washington had honored the custom. FDR was President during extraordinary times, with the Depression and WWII a chapter that still brings an ache to our memories. Roosevelt chose to not bow out after two terms and was elected to four terms as President. FDR tried to increase the number of judges on the Supreme Court in order to pass his socialist programs. FDR did not hesitate to ignore the Constitution and that fact prompted Congress, in 1947, to pass a Constitutional Amendment that limited the President to two terms. The 1947 Supreme Court never even questioned the constitutionality of limiting the President to two terms. Presidential term limits were a good idea and even the Founding Fathers debated both Executive and Legislative Term Limits extremely strongly. The question asked was “is the voting process enough of a safe guarantee to avoid the danger of a dictatorship”? The answer was that the voting process was considered enough of a guarantee. Until FDR came along.
The three branches of government are co-equal so that no one branch can control the other two branches. The Founding Fathers never dreamed that it would be so difficult to end a politician’s career by voting him out of office. FDR proved the difficulty, and now we have the problem of Congress, especially the Senate, being able to control, to an unhealthy extent, their own re-election. We have the spectacle of some Senators serving more than six terms!! Several states, Michigan being one of them, passed laws limiting the number of terms their Congressional delegations could serve. The Supreme Court said that congressional term limits are unconstitutional. The voters pick both the President and the Congressional delegations.
Lawyers quote precedent as the reason for a legally binding decision. If precedent is honored, why is it that Congress could Constitutionally limit the Executive branch to only two terms, but a State’s voters, who hold the ultimate power according to the constitution, were told that setting their State’s Congressional term limits is unconstitutional? The Supreme Court has said that term limits are constitutional but then later, the court says term limits are unconstitutional. It obviously depends on who is making the decisions.
The United States Senate is obstructionist to an extreme and has the power to shut down the government. Both the Democrats and Republicans have abused that power and used it as a threat to control government. Is that not the equivalent of a dictatorship? Congressional Term Limits seem the only way to give control to the voters. Re-election is more important than good government!!
Can voters be trusted to make good decisions as to who should be elected to public office? Two hundred years of American history says yes, but only if the voters have the information available to them to make well informed decisions. The Congressional delegations have a built in reason to not allow the whole truth to be known to the voters. Congress has proved that they have the power to lie to the voters. The media controls the perception of what goes on Washington and is part of the problem. ABP bloggers are not looking for re-election, and thus are able to do a better job of getting the truth to the voters.
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