Evaluating Term Limits

At the time of the initial review, the idea of ​​implementing a time limit in Congress was very attractive. In fact, the first decision should not be incorporated into the Constitution, but our founders first discussed the concept of terminology restriction (Newton-Small, 2010). However, from the beginning of the country, there are consistent reasons to consider the time limit, such as legislative changes, restrictions on abuse of qualifications, and declining superiority of incumbents in election campaigns.

Duration can be divided into two large categories. It is continuous and lifelong. Due to the ongoing period limitation, civil servants are restricted to providing a certain number of terms at that particular office. After the office has reached the limit, civil servants can not run again to the same office (although he / she can run to any other election office). After a certain period of time (usually one semester), the watch resets the restrictions, civil servants can do election campaigns for his / her original office and provide service again.

This term is a legal limit that limits the number of terms that civil servants can serve in a particular elected position. If there is a deadline for the presidential system and the semi-presidential system, it will be a way to curb the possibility of monopolization, the leader will effectively become "the president of the lifetime". This is to prevent democracy from becoming de facto dictatorship. Sometimes the number of terms a civil servant can serve is absolute or lifelong limitations; sometimes the limit depends only on the number of consecutive terms that he or she may serve.

Many modern presidential republics have a term of office at their best. In 1951, the United States imposed the second term restriction on the President by the 22nd amendment of the Constitution. Vice-chairperson, delegates and senators have no restrictions on terms of office, but these offices have a limited term of office. According to state law, some state governors and state legislators have a term limit. Official restrictions in the United States can be traced back to the colonial government framework of the same year as the "Pennsylvania Freedom Charter" of 1682 written by William Penn and will provide a three-year rotation of the Legislative Legislature of the colony . (See also the limitation of technical terms in the US)

In both states, Congress abolished the time limit. In the other four states, the court judged the restriction period to be unconstitutional. The court opposed the way to set restrictions in all four cases, not imposing a time limit on lawsuits of the law itself. Opinions are similar in Washington State and Massachusetts in Wyoming. In all three provinces, the time limit is enacted as a regulation, not a constitutional amendment. The court stated that period restrictions had to be prescribed by the state constitution to constitute qualifications and that the rules detailing it were not constitutional. In Oregon state, the State Supreme Court has found that the implementation of the period restriction within the state violates the requirement of a single agency for initiatives.