We’ve made this handy little Senate Term Limit widget for you to register your feelings about Senatorial term limits.
This issue is probably DOA due to the difficulty of having Senators vote to pass an amendment limiting their own terms – something that doesn’t even sound possible.
Other than the instituting staggered electing (1/3 of the body every 2 years), Senators have never willingly given up any perk of office. The take may have to be that the count on a member’s limits would begin after the states ratify. Even then, we doubt they would have the backbone to consider it.
After all, they are Senators, and they get to serve as long as the people in their state continue to elect them. Which is how it should be. Yet we all know from high school history classes that the founders assumed people would serve for a while and then return to private life.
After registering your own vote, we encourage you to take and place the widget on blogs and other sites where you think it would be appropriate and useful. Just let us know where it is, so we can follow our little guy, and look at some of the responses.
Okay – what do you think?
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