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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    I absolutely don't agree with them.

    I resolutely oppose the 22nd Amendment.

    We have elections.
    We can limit the term of any office holder with those.

    Ted Kennedy won eight 6 year term Senate races in Massachusetts, although he didn't live to finish the last one, plus a special election for a partial term in 1962.

    I was actually too young to vote for him in 1962 and 1964, no 18-year old vote yet for the latter,
    but I voted for him in 1970, 1976, 1982. 1988, 1994, 2000, and 2006.

    How was it anybody's business to tell his Massachusetts constituents that they couldn't vote for him?

    FDR, possibly the greatest of all US Presidents, was elected four times.
    He would have been President when I was born if he lived to complete his last term.

    Terms limits have no reason to exist.
    I am not a fan of unlimited terms, but on the other hand Barack Obama would have easily won a third term and spared us from four years of the worst president in U.S. history.

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    public private partnership, man. go fascism.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    What the fuck would I do without AssHat Zombie?

    All this time I thought that I was a Sicilian!
    you're welcome.

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    My proposal: When a federal-level politician reaches 75, it will be his/her last term. We have minimum ages; why not a maximum age?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Controlled Opposition View Post
    My proposal: When a federal-level politician reaches 75, it will be his/her last term. We have minimum ages; why not a maximum age?
    This should apply to judges too, especially supreme court jurist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    you're welcome.
    hey bro, we need to catch up. gonna come up our way anytime soon?
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    I absolutely don't agree with them.

    I resolutely oppose the 22nd Amendment.

    We have elections.
    We can limit the term of any office holder with those.

    Ted Kennedy won eight 6 year term Senate races in Massachusetts, although he didn't live to finish the last one, plus a special election for a partial term in 1962.

    I was actually too young to vote for him in 1962 and 1964, no 18-year old vote yet for the latter,
    but I voted for him in 1970, 1976, 1982. 1988, 1994, 2000, and 2006.

    How was it anybody's business to tell his Massachusetts constituents that they couldn't vote for him?

    FDR, possibly the greatest of all US Presidents, was elected four times.
    He would have been President when I was born if he lived to complete his last term.

    Terms limits have no reason to exist.
    Yeah, but you're a Section 8 idiot.

    It stops Congress from building decades-long relationships with corporations and forces them to be public servants more.

    You know, represent their constituents and their state like they're supposed to?

    The other solution is to ban lobbying and treat it like the bribery that it is and prosecute it harshly.

    That would solve a lot of problems for Americans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goat View Post
    This should apply to judges too, especially supreme court jurist.
    No, not them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    I absolutely don't agree with them.

    I resolutely oppose the 22nd Amendment.

    We have elections.
    We can limit the term of any office holder with those.

    Ted Kennedy won eight 6 year term Senate races in Massachusetts, although he didn't live to finish the last one, plus a special election for a partial term in 1962.

    I was actually too young to vote for him in 1962 and 1964, no 18-year old vote yet for the latter,
    but I voted for him in 1970, 1976, 1982. 1988, 1994, 2000, and 2006.

    How was it anybody's business to tell his Massachusetts constituents that they couldn't vote for him?

    FDR, possibly the greatest of all US Presidents, was elected four times.
    He would have been President when I was born if he lived to complete his last term.

    Terms limits have no reason to exist.
    Was it the abandoning of the drowning girl in the car that you liked about him?

    Or was it the killing of innocent babies?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    No, not them.
    The constitution doesn't say they can stay until they die.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goat View Post
    The constitution doesn't say they can stay until they die.
    The rule has been elected for life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    The rule has been elected for life.
    That's why there's a second amendment solution.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goat View Post
    That's why there's a second amendment solution.
    No. The Supreme Court being elected for life is NOT tyranny.

    You're barking up the wrong grass.

    Did they teach Civics in school when you were growing up?

    I just failed to find mine.. that I kept.

    But yeah, that's not a hill to die on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    No. The Supreme Court being elected for life is NOT tyranny.

    You're barking up the wrong grass.

    Did they teach Civics in school when you were growing up?

    I just failed to find mine.. that I kept.

    But yeah, that's not a hill to die on.
    I'm in the camp with systemic breakdown. Politicians and judges will go into hiding. A self-imposed exile is a form of term limits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goat View Post
    I'm in the camp with systemic breakdown. Politicians and judges will go into hiding. A self-imposed exile is a form of term limits.
    Pffft. Just stop. Even if all (enough) Americans rise up, most of that can go on unimpeded.

    The main problems with America today are at the federal level. With the bureaus (separate from the next part), and the House and the Senate being immune to laws others have to abide by.

    Who voted for if politicians get elected, they're better than us? They did! During Carter and Reagan's 2nd Congress.

    That's how recently it got screwed up so bad. Carter vetoed their BS, and they were so bad, they overrode the veto.

    I'm of the opinion that can be rolled back to where they have to be accountable for their actions.

    It can be done.
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