Limits on Congress

Article V

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

Our Founding Fathers seem brilliant to me. They put several clauses into the document that controls our government that amount to checks and balances that no one had seen before, and are seldom used.

This one clause, highlighted above, is one that is long over due in its application. Thirty for state legislatures are need to call a constitutional convention with regard to proposing an amendment to the Constitution, and thiry eight states need to radify this document to change our govening document.

The federal government is in need of taking down a peg, and just changing the party in power every 2 to 4 years is not getting it done.

The Founders originally set out term limits in the Articles of Confederation but removed them in the Constitution feeling they had no place on a shortened document.

http://www.usconstitution.net/articles.html#Article5

Article V. For the most convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislatures of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each State to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead for the remainder of the year.

No State shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees or emolument of any kind.

We talk and whine that no one hears us in DC. If we started an Constitutional convention outside of the DC arena, with the aim of Amending the Constitution and add term limits to the members of Congress..............................can you hear me now?

This is a subject that rings true with the voting public. Consistent polling show that 60% + of all
voters support term limits on the Congress, just ask the representatives in the California State Legislature.

This is a idea who's time has come.