Constitutional Amendment

One of the biggest political problems I see in the United States is the presence of career politicians in Washington, DC. Many politicians in the House and Senate have spent their entire adult lives in DC. This problem manifest itself in special interest groups and nefarious iron triangles controlling career politicians. The Founders did not intend for political offices to be held by lifelong politicians, but wanted a wide range of people to perform public service - a break from their careers as farmers, physicians, businessmen, lawyers, etc - and return to their communities and careers.

We have limited the terms a president can serve with good reason. A proposal to limit the terms of Representatives and Senators is required.



A Proposed Amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms and or the number of years members of the US House and US Senate may serve.




CONSTUTITIONAL AMENDMENT




Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of United States Representative more than Six Terms or to the office of United States Senator more than Two Terms, and no person holding such office more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected Representative or Senator shall be elected to the office of Representative more than Five Terms or to the office of Senator more than One Term. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office in the House or the Senate when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of Representative or Senator, or acting as Representative or Senator, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of Representative or Senator or acting as Representative or Senator during the reminder of such term.

Section 2. This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress