#23 IT CAN BE DONE!

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They said it can’t be done! I say it CAN be done!

A Congressional Term Limits Amendment (CTLA) WILL happen.

Ever since I started my term limits website TenureCorrupts.Com, I have been bombarded with negative and discouraging comments like “You’ll never succeed!”, and “You don’t expect Congress to cut their own throats, do you?” Well no, I don’t think it will be easy, but I think the voters will force the issue, one way or another. People will put up with Congressional arrogance only so long. And “It can’t be done” has proved wrong many times in the past..

History is full of examples where skeptics made fun of trailblazers:
Columbus was going to sail off the edge of the earth, Galileo was punished for saying the earth rotated around the sun, the automobile was a passing fad, airplanes couldn’t fly, etc, etc, etc.

Now, the common feeling is that we’ll never get Congressional Term Limits! And this is in spite of the fact that every time Term Limits is placed on any state or local ballot, it gets passed overwhelmingly! Not just barely, but overwhelmingly, like by a 70 to 30 ratio !

So why shouldn’t it get passed on a national ballot? Well, for one thing, there is currently no ‘Initiative’ procedure in Federal elections which would allow the voters to place it on a ballot. Term Limits requires a constitutional amendment proposed by Congress, who is adamantly opposed to the idea! Or by a Constitutional Convention, which many people are afraid of. Actually, it is worse than that. Since the Supreme Court recently decided that individual States cannot set term limits on their own Senators and Representatives in Congress, the growing trend toward State-determined Congressional Term Limits was stopped in its tracks, after 15 states had already enacted limits for their delegates.

However, there are so many ways that it could happen, and given that it is basically so popular with the voters, it really not a matter of whether it will happen, but when.

Let’s make a list of ways it could happen:

1. A simple national email campaign by all interested voters, simultaneously, to Congress, the media, and to bloggers, demanding a Congressional Term Limits Amendment (CTLA). (creating an Event!)
2. Get the Initiative process enacted in more States, and get a Congressional Term Limits Amendment on the the ballot in those States to force the legislature to demand a CTLA.
3. Call for a Constitutional Convention to call for a CTLA.
4. Appoint ‘originalist’ justices to the Supreme Court to reverse the decision which denied States the right to term limit their Congresspeople.
5. Coalesce the national trend toward local term limits into a movement which focusses on term limits for Congress.
6. Promote a national chainmail program demanding a CTLA.
7. Devise ways to get major institutions to periodically publish papers, and sponsor lectures and debates, to raise voter awareness of the benefits of Congressional Term Limits.
8. And finally, consider a movement to “Never Vote for ANY Incumbent” unless he pledges to not run again, and not to vote for any challenger unless he promises to term limit himself.

Our country NEEDS a Congressional Term Limit Amendment!

Nelson Lee Walker
www.tenurecorrupts.com