Term Limits

According to the tenth revision, the constitutional authority gives the Federal Government new qualifications, in particular the number of conditions that the mission delegation can take in Washington. The legal battlefield covers the two parts of the Constitution. Supporters of periodic restrictions stipulate that these provisions give each state authority to set the time, place, and method of parliamentary elections, thus delegating local rules to local people Article 1 4 Emphasize.

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)