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Old 05-22-08, 11:46 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
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Specified term limits, though a good idea, are simply a flawed concept all the way around. They might solve some of the problems with the country, but it's doubtful that anything much would change. Politics has always been a corrupt business. The senators would find a way to get around the limit; more likely such a law would never even pass in the first place... if it even came into existence and was presented to begin with.

The senators at least have to be voted on regularly, unlike the Supreme Court justices, who can serve for life... there needs to be a retirement limit with them (incompetence with age comes as a natural). No term limit; just an age when they are forced to step down.
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