Add to ORKGThis article addresses the need for change in a seniority-based political system which fosters and is dominated by self-serving career politicians who rarely appear to serve the public interest. Campaign finance reforms and other remedial approaches show no signs of abating this situation. Term limitations, however, offer a reasonable check on the evil inherent in prolonged legislative power. Even though the constitutionality of state-enacted limitations on federal legislators is debatable, state enacted limitations on state legislative terms are constitutional. The "limited" popular constitutional initiative provided for in the 1970 Illinois Constitution--and the Illinois Supreme Court decisions interpreting that provision--appear to allo...
In this article, I examine how term limits affect the amount of time that legislators focus on const...
In U.S. Term Limits, the Court reviewed an amendment to the Arkansas Constitution, adopted in 1992, ...
This article attempts to shed some light on an unintended consequence of the term limit movement, it...
The question of whether a legislator should have his or her years of service capped by term limits i...
Legislative term limits have been a topic of discussion in the political arena since the 1990s.Histo...
Term limits for US Congress are back in the political agenda with another proposition of constitutio...
2 After an unusually swift reform movement in the 1990s, 15 states are now adjusting to the most sig...
Many states have passed, or are considering, statutes to limit the number of terms their members of ...
Term limits on legislators were adopted in 21 states during the early 1990s. Beginning in 1996, the ...
In Part I, this article explores the underlying policy debate surrounding this issue. Our Founding F...
The idea of term limits has been around since the founding of our nation. The Articles of Confederat...
Reduces the total amount of time a person may serve in the state legislature from 14 years to 12 yea...
Limiting the terms of members of Congress has become a highsalience issue in contemporary American p...
International audienceIn 1990, more than two centuries after Jefferson’s proposal of limiting re-ele...
In 2003, a group called Oregon Term Limits began an effort to reinstate legislative term limits in t...
In this article, I examine how term limits affect the amount of time that legislators focus on const...
In U.S. Term Limits, the Court reviewed an amendment to the Arkansas Constitution, adopted in 1992, ...
This article attempts to shed some light on an unintended consequence of the term limit movement, it...
The question of whether a legislator should have his or her years of service capped by term limits i...
Legislative term limits have been a topic of discussion in the political arena since the 1990s.Histo...
Term limits for US Congress are back in the political agenda with another proposition of constitutio...
2 After an unusually swift reform movement in the 1990s, 15 states are now adjusting to the most sig...
Many states have passed, or are considering, statutes to limit the number of terms their members of ...
Term limits on legislators were adopted in 21 states during the early 1990s. Beginning in 1996, the ...
In Part I, this article explores the underlying policy debate surrounding this issue. Our Founding F...
The idea of term limits has been around since the founding of our nation. The Articles of Confederat...
Reduces the total amount of time a person may serve in the state legislature from 14 years to 12 yea...
Limiting the terms of members of Congress has become a highsalience issue in contemporary American p...
International audienceIn 1990, more than two centuries after Jefferson’s proposal of limiting re-ele...
In 2003, a group called Oregon Term Limits began an effort to reinstate legislative term limits in t...
In this article, I examine how term limits affect the amount of time that legislators focus on const...
In U.S. Term Limits, the Court reviewed an amendment to the Arkansas Constitution, adopted in 1992, ...
This article attempts to shed some light on an unintended consequence of the term limit movement, it...