Is there any way to have a serious movement for Congressional term limits ?

[Sacrarium Spiritus lumine]

Not just the US, just about damn near anywhere. I don’t have any solutions, I’m just asking, or is not a good idea to begin with?

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I don't know what you're talking about.

 

[Reverend]

You must be drunk

 

[A Cardboard Box]

if you go look at current proposed legislation in congress, there is a proposed constitutional amendment to limit congress limits.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I'm not sure it's a good idea, because there are no term limits on lobbyists, NGOs, and similar. You don't want the most experienced hands in government all being shills. It's bad enough that they already write our legislation for us.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Legally, no.

 

[Pentex]

Career bureaucrats and lobbyists are more dangerous than legislators, as they are the driving force behind 'sensible, common sense, bipartisan, 10,000-page omnibus' bills and regulatory loopholes.

Term limits for judges and banning ivy leaguers from sitting on the federal judiciary, those are some treacherous waters.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

You want to cut down on bureaucratic bloat in your government, not expand it.

 

[Bass]

Career bureaucrats and lobbyists are more dangerous than legislators, as they are the driving force behind 'sensible, common sense, bipartisan, 10,000-page omnibus' bills and regulatory loopholes.

Term limits for judges and banning ivy leaguers from sitting on the federal judiciary, those are some treacherous waters.

Yeah it's probably not a good idea to limit legislative terms. It would also be damn near impossible due to needing an amendment to do so, and you just know that it would have to be done via the state convention route, as I don't see Congress making any moves to limit themselves any time soon...or ever for that matter.

As for the bureaucrats, sometimes I think the old spoils system, where the entire executive branch, minus the military, gets wiped out every 4 to 8 years might have been the best way to do things in DC. Not that I see that coming back anytime soon either.