Amendment III: Election Standards

[civman2000]

A person may run for only one office per election. One may only hold a particular office twice in a row. There are no limits beyond this regarding reelection for either that office, or any other.

I suppose it's been the needed 3 weeks for a repoll on term limits, and I think they should exist, but I don't think we should include them in hte amendment. Also, I think you should be able to run for more than one position.

THere should also be a section in this amendment that covers what happens if there's only 1 candidate.

In sum, I voted NO

[WhiteBandit]

Eh, disagree.

I disagree with the issue of term limits. The ultimate term limit is the voters themselves. If they are honestly sick and tired of a career politician, then they will make it known. I think it ultimately hurts if we have a great candidate who can only run two terms.

Trips has said that the majority of people approve of term limits, which is probably true, but I find this an interesting logic. Like I said, they are the ultimate delegator of term limits, why should this be in the constitution. If you are tired of someone, vote them out of office.

Also, multiple people running as a team for one office seems to be a flaky idea as well. I'm not sure what the logic behind this is. This amendment should probably be rewritten.