Term Limits

The nation's Founders strongly believed in rotation in office. They left term limits out of the Constitution because they did not foresee that politics could or would become a career for so many people. Short term limits would remedy that mistake. Nothing is more important today than reversing the pernicious rise of a professional political class.

Palm Beach County has term limits

The County Supervisors have term Limits

Politicians are proving reluctant to agree to relinquish power--which shows the need for term limits irrespective of the partisan composition of Congress or any elected body viz a viz UCO.

To effectively end politics as a lifetime sinecure, thereby making  service a leave of absence from a productive, private-sector retirement, requires that terms be short. 4 years is a short career, but it is more than long enough for your UCO officers to become more concerned about their relationships with each other--logrolling and the like--than about their relationships with constituents.

The nation's Founders strongly believed in rotation in office. They left term limits out of the Constitution because they did not foresee that politics could become a career. Short term limits would remedy that mistake. Nothing is more important today than reversing the pernicious rise of a professional political class.

The movement to limit political terms is steamrolling through American politics. Voters have approved term limits for Congressmen in each of the fifteen states where referenda have been held, with votes averaging over 66 percent in support, and another four to ten states will permit their citizens to vote on congressional term limits this November. If past elections and current polls are any indication, these proposals also will pass easily. In addition, eighteen states and hundreds of cities and counties across the country have adopted term limits for state and local officials.

Such substantial public support suggests widespread distaste for careerism in politics, as well as a conviction that continual infusion of fresh blood into UCO will be good for both the Village

Here in Century Village we need Term Limits. We don't need careerism. We need to reestablish a citizen Delegate legislature.

Term limits are a vital political reform that would bring new perspectives to UCO, mandate frequent legislative turnover, and diminish incentives for wasteful activities that currently flourish in a careerist  culture.