Term Limits for Congress

Term Limits for Congress
In the U.S. constitution it states that Representatives in the House serve 2-year terms and the Senate members serve 4-year terms. The Constitution does not stay a certain amount of terms each person can have. Thus, arguments over whether or not term limits should be put in place and by what means, an amendment or a Supreme Court decision.
In Fabius’s article_, Limit the Terms of Members of Congress_, Fabius instantly takes a position against unlimited Congressional terms. He proposes that an amendment be made to limit the Representativesto 4 terms and the Senate members to 2 terms. He references to Aristotle and Cicero by saying that having more people involved in a government is better. Originally, in the Articles of Confederation Congress was limited to 3 terms but to Jefferson’sdisapproval, the rule was dropped in the revised Constitution. Terms weren’t an early issue because Congress was not considered a full time job, so its members would only participate for a small amount of time then move on. During the 1900s the Congress’s duties increased and so did their pay and benefits, thus giving members more reason to serve multiple terms. Congress is exemptfrom many laws they create such as, minimum wage laws and anti-discrimination laws. Members are able to serve more than one term because new runners rarely come about so they are reelected up to 90% of the time. He states that Congress should be limited so they don’t become use to all the privileges they acquirewith their jobs. All-in-all Fabius is for a new amendment to keep Congress from getting caught up in the benefits of the job.
The author Caesar in his article, _Keep the Current _System, takes a very strong opinion against Fabius’s point. His point is that people should be able to vote for whichever member they chose regardless of term numbers. Henry Clay served a 5 year term and in that time he created the Missouri Compromise with ultimately prevented war between states....