U.S._Term_Limits

U.S. Term Limits

U.S. Term Limits

Organization



U.S. Term Limits (USTL) is a non-profit, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to enacting term limits for elected officials at every level of government in the United States. It was founded in 1992, and claims to have helped facilitate more than 500 successful term limits initiatives at various levels of government.[2]

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Among other activities, USTL supports statewide ballot initiatives to impose term limits. In the early 1990s, USTL organized grassroots campaigns that placed term limits on the congressional delegations of 23 states. These were overturned as unconstitutional in 1995 by the Supreme Court, in a 5–4 decision in U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton.

U.S. Term Limits is promoting a convention to propose amendments under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, focused specifically on a term limits amendment.[3][4][5] Resolutions calling for such a convention have been passed by the state legislatures of Florida,[6] Alabama,[7] Missouri,[8] West Virginia,[9] Wisconsin,[10] Oklahoma, [11] and Tennessee. [12] This is about 21% of the 34 states required to call for a convention.

Additionally, resolutions have been passed by the Louisiana State Senate,[13] the North Carolina House of Representatives,[14] and the Indiana House of Representatives[15] However, the resolutions need to be passed by both houses of the state legislatures.



References

  1. Blumel, Philip. "About Us". US Term Limits. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  2. "The Term Limits Convention Handbook For Lawmakers" (PDF). Term Limits. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  3. "U.S. Term Limits Launches Article V Convention Effort". www.termlimits.org. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
  4. "3rd candidate in 27th District supports term limits on Congress". Niagara Frontier Publications. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  5. "Tennessee General Assembly Legislation". Tennessee State Legislature. Retrieved 2024-04-13.



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