Amendment XXVIII
Proposed June 9, 2010
Section 1.
No person shall be elected to the United States House of Representatives more than six times and no person shall be elected to the United States Senate more than twice effective on the commencement of the 114th Congress beginning January 3, 2015. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of Representative or Senator when this Article was proposed by Congress and prior to the start of the 114th Congress. After said date, all newly elected Representatives and Senators shall comply with the term limits set forth. All previously elected Representatives and Senators shall be exempt from this Article’s enforcement until they have been retired, failed in reelection, been removed through appropriate legal means as outlined in Article I, Section 3 of this Constitution, or have become deceased during service. No person who has held the office of Representative or the office of Senator, or acted as Representative or Senator, for more than one quarter of the applicable term, shall be elected to the office of Representative more than five times and to the office of Senator more than once.
Section 2.
This Amendment refers to all other laws set forth in Article I of this Constitution.
Section 3.
This Article must be presented to the general public in the form of a national proposition during the election year of 2012. Upon a majority approval, this Article will seek ratification from the United States Congress.
Section 4:
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to this Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within two years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
May I present my Constitutional Amendment for Term Limits. A very simple concept: Anyone newly elected after January 3, 2015 in the House will serve no more than six terms of two years and anyone newly elected at that same time to the Senate will serve no more than two terms of six years, both either consecutively or nonconsecutively. In order to ensure passage by Congress, it must be presented to the voters and see a greater than 50% majority as a national ballot initiative/proposition. This will force Congress to address the measure that has then gotten overwhelming public support. As a kick back to those that may have an intent to dismiss it due to their own selfish preservation, the Amendment exempts already elected officials prior to January 3, 2015 from seeing term limits. Their ultimate removal is in the voters hands, their own retirement, trial of impeachment, or in death. It also refers back to all powers given to both bodies as set forth by the framers in Article I.
Ed
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