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- Are Term Limits Working? - Article on the effects of current term limit laws at the state level in the United States. By Bob Bucher of the Independence Institute.
www.i2i.org/Publications/Op-Eds/PoliticsandGovernment/oped981230.htm
- Citizen Legislators Congressional Caucus Foundation - Advocates term limits for members of the US Congress. Site provides news releases, educational resources, members and directors, and statements from citizen legislators currently serving.
www.citizenlegislators.org
- Citizens for Term Limit Awareness - Supports term limits in the US Congress in order to alleviate career politicians. Includes position statement, articles on term limits, and historic quotes.
www.termlimits.com
- Civic Values - Mailing list debate about term limits.
civic.net/civic-values.archive/199902/msg00087.html
- Congress for Life? - Discusses the problem of careerism in Congress and a case for term limits.
www.innerself.com/Magazine/Commentary/Congress_for_Life.htm
- Missouri Term Limits Ballot Measure goes to U.S. Supreme Court (CNN.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of a Missouri law that requires notices on ballots that identify candidates who do not support term limits.
www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/11/03/scotus.termlimits/index.html
- Oregon Term Limits - Site presents a history of Term Limits in Oregon, political cartoons and links.
www.oregontermlimits.org
- Real Term Limits: Now More than Ever - Presents arguments for term limits and rebuffs several anti-term limit arguments.
www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-221.html
- Reform Party Platform: Term Limits - Discribes the third party's official stance on Term Limits.
reformparty.org/PrinciplesIssues/platform.html#term-limits
- Senate Faces Term Limits (The Backgrounder) - Article discussing Congress's 1996 term limit initiative. Includes "10 Misconceptions about Term Limits." (by Kenneth Weinstein / The Heritage Foundation)
www.heritage.org/library/categories/govern/bgup274.html
- Support Term Limits for Congress - Provides a way to contact your representative about supporting term limits for Congress.
www.citizencongress.org
- Term Limits in Politics - Short argument against term limits.
dan_pressnell.tripod.com/termlimits.htm
- Term limits prevailing (St. Petersburg Times) - Tampa mayor falls victim to term limits when voters reject an act repealing the law. (Election 2000 coverage.)
www.sptimes.com/News/110800/Election2000/Term_limits_prevailin.shtml
- Term Limits Take Effect (Washington Post) - Report on Term limit movements across the country, on a state and national level.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/termlimits/termlimits.htm
- Term Limits Temptation (The New American) - An extensive collection of arguments against term limits. Decrys term limits as "wholesale restructuring of our federal system."
www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1996/vo12no12/vo12no12_limits.htm
- U. S. Term Limits - National activist organization which asks candidates for the U.S. Congress to sign a pledge limiting themselves to no more than three terms in the House or two terms in the Senate. [Relies on imagemaps for navigation.]
www.termlimits.org
- U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995). - This case explains why it is unconstitutional for a state law to require term limits for US Congressional representatives.
supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-1456.ZO.html
- Voters Reject Legislator Term Limits (USA Today) - Mississippi became the first state Tuesday to refuse to impose term limits on its legislators, four years after voters rejected similar restrictions for all state elected officials. [election 99 coverage]
www.usatoday.com/news/vote99/v033.htm
- Washingtonpost.com: Term Limits Special Report - Chart showing when state legislature term limits will go into effect.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/termlimits/chart.htm
- What Term Limits Do That Ordinary Voting Cannot - This article contests the argument that we have term limits in the form of elections.
www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-328es.html
- Why I oppose Term Limits - Site examines arguments against term limits and provides alternatives to term limits.
www.perkel.com/politics/issues/limits.htm
- Worth Repeating (The New American) - Quotes from the Founding Fathers against term limits.
www.thenewamerican.com/departments/quotes/term_limits.htm
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