{"id":1002,"date":"2023-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2023-05-14T19:27:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T23:27:17","slug":"not-a-fan-of-term-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/2023\/05\/08\/not-a-fan-of-term-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Fan of Term Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The House of Representatives is considering an amendment to the Constitution that would limit the terms of members of Congress. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/house-joint-resolution\/11\/text?s=9&amp;r=1\">H. J. Res. 11<\/a>. The Twenty-Second Amendment already restricts the number of times a person can be elected President. In many States a two-term (or at least two consecutive term) limit is standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many good government advocates believe that term limits are good for democracy, but I&#8217;m not so sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather, I believe that term limits (and all but the most basic legal qualifications for office) limit democracy by reducing the choices that the people can make. It is common, but not universal, to require would-be legislators to reside in the district they seek to represent. One the one hand this is fully understandable, but on the other, perhaps the non-resident is really a better candidate. I&#8217;d rather have us be able to elect a non-resident than encourage carpetbagging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"line-height:0\">Jay Bohn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"line-height:0\">May 8, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives is considering an amendment to the Constitution that would limit the terms of members of Congress. H. J. Res. 11. The Twenty-Second Amendment already restricts the number of times a person can be elected President. In many States a two-term (or at least two consecutive term) limit is standard. Many good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/2023\/05\/08\/not-a-fan-of-term-limits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not a Fan of Term Limits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}