is the only way to prevent "paid for" politicians. If the president is limited, so should be everyone else.
How do we make that happen? No politician would vote for it.
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is the only way to prevent "paid for" politicians. If the president is limited, so should be everyone else.
How do we make that happen? No politician would vote for it.
For federal office (Congresscritters), a Constitutional Amendment is required.
Without a convention, 2/3rds of both the House and Senate must vote to propose the amendment and send it to the states for ratification.
Regardless of how the Amendment is proposed, 3/4ths of the states (a total of 38) must ratify it, by a majority vote of each state legislature.
Various states tried to impose a term limit on THEIR Congresscritter. All were voided by SCOTUS in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Term_Limits,_Inc._v._Thornton