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In May 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5–4 in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995), that states cannot impose term limits upon their federal representatives or senators. In the 1994 U.S. elections , part of the " Contract With America " Republican platform included legislation for term limits in Congress.
U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995), is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that states cannot impose qualifications for prospective members of the U.S. Congress stricter than those the Constitution specifies. The decision invalidated 23 states' Congressional term limit provisions.
On March 21, the House agreed to the Senate's revisions and approved the resolution to amend the Constitution. Afterward, the amendment imposing term limitations on future presidents was submitted to the states for ratification. The ratification process was completed on February 27, 1951, 3 years, 343 days after it was sent to the states. [19] [20]
The rule imposing term limits was ratified after Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to the White House an unprecedented four times: in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944.
“There are people who have been in the Legislature a lot longer than I have been,” said state Rep. John Resman.
U.S. House Democrats will introduce a bill next week to impose term limits on Supreme Court justices to 18 years from the current lifetime appointments. The new bill, spearheaded by California ...
It was founded in 1992, and claims to have helped facilitate more than 500 successful term limits initiatives at various levels of government. [2] Among other activities, USTL supports statewide ballot initiatives to impose term limits. In the early 1990s, USTL organized grassroots campaigns that placed term limits on the congressional ...
The GOP nominee told supporters on Tuesday he would impose term limits on all members of Congress to help further "drain the swamp" in Washington, D.C.