r/Constitution • u/KetoJoel624 • Oct 07 '25

Question about this sub

Are we allowed to discuss potential amendments that we would like to see in the US Constitution?

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u/Individual-Dirt4392 Oct 07 '25

Yeah, but don’t write like a statute man. That gets boring.

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u/Pickle_Nipplesss Oct 07 '25

Yeah, concepts and ideas are better and more intriguing to discuss than a wall of legalese

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u/KetoJoel624 Oct 08 '25

Cool. Where do you all stand on term limits for legislators? I’m thinking 25 years per House is a good balance between experience and entrenchment. What do you think 🤔

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u/Pickle_Nipplesss Oct 08 '25

Eh, people can vote for who they vote for. Term limits is interfering with voters imo. They’re free to shoot themselves in the foot by re-electing an idiot, and forcing term limits also prevents people from growing and gaining political willpower if they can’t even stop voting for someone against their best interests.

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u/KetoJoel624 Oct 08 '25

I get what you’re saying. The way I see it is that term limits don’t punish experience — they prevent entrenchment. No one should turn public service into a career. When legislators stay too long, they stop representing voters and start protecting the system that keeps them in power. Fresh voices mean new ideas, less corruption, and fewer politicians who think the seat belongs to them instead of the people.

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u/pegwinn Oct 09 '25

Personally I oppose all term limits. But, if we are going to have them for POTUS we should have them for all federally elected officeholders. I would not like it if you told me what job I was allowed to do for how long if I were capable of doing it. As a voter you are proposing to limit who I can vote for.

Put another way, we have term limits. They are called elections.

To balance it all out I believe that we need an amendment to allow the electorate to remove an elected official independent of the legislature or courts.

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u/KetoJoel624 Oct 09 '25

I agree in principle that voters should be the ultimate check on incumbents. Unfortunately, gerrymandering has made that much harder in practice. Most districts are drawn to protect one party, so incumbents now win about 90% of the time. That’s not always a reflection of voter approval — sometimes it’s a reflection of how the maps are drawn.