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Fix Broken Term Limit Law

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depserv:
As a lifelong Nebraska resident it seemed to me that our state government got better after the term limit law went into effect and some of the political hacks like Ernie Chambers were retired.  But now I see they're coming back, due to the law having been made incomplete.  Those of us who care about our children's future should try to fix this.

Husker_Fan:
I'm always skeptical of people who want to keep others from choosing the representatives they want.

OnTheFly:
This is a double edged sword.  It may get rid of some representatives that are not friendly to the 2A, but term limits have also removed at least one state senator from office that was friendly to our cause.

Fly

NENick:

--- Quote from: Husker_Fan on March 25, 2013, 08:20:27 PM ---I'm always skeptical of people who want to keep others from choosing the representatives they want.

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As the citizenry becomes less educated/ informed...perhaps we need measures such as this? People aren't fulfilling their duty to be informed or vote. Where does that leave us until they're awakened? It sure feels like with the same people who have the best name recognition, and no more.

Dan W:
So why do we term limit the president? Because it is not wise to let too much power reside in one branch of government for extended lengths of time


--- Quote ---  “Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens,” George Mason posited. 
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--- Quote ---My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to return into the mass of the people and become the governed instead of the governors which might still keep alive that regard to the public good that otherwise they might perhaps be induced by their independence to forget.~Thomas Jefferson
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--- Quote ---No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that … the accumulation of all powers legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny~ James Madison
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--- Quote ---After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.~Winston Churchill
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As you can see the idea of term limits is not a new one, but rather has been with us since the Republic was formed

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