Movement to repeal Presidential Term Limits has begun

There is a Demo­c­rat from New York that has intro­duced a mea­sure to repeal the 22^nd Amend­ment to the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion, which lim­its Pres­i­den­tial term lim­its to two.

Rep. Jose Ser­rano has intro­duced H.J. Res­o­lu­tion 5.

There’s one per­son I’d like to quote now to address this:

All obstruc­tions to the exe­cu­tion of the laws, all com­bi­na­tions and asso­ci­a­tions, under what­ever plau­si­ble char­ac­ter, with the real design to direct, con­trol, coun­ter­act, or awe the reg­u­lar delib­er­a­tion and action of the con­sti­tuted author­i­ties, are destruc­tive of this fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ple, and of fatal ten­dency. They serve to orga­nize fac­tion, to give it an arti­fi­cial and extra­or­di­nary force; to put, in the place of the del­e­gated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but art­ful and enter­pris­ing minor­ity of the com­mu­nity; and, accord­ing to the alter­nate tri­umphs of dif­fer­ent par­ties, to make the pub­lic admin­is­tra­tion the mir­ror of the ill-concerted and incon­gru­ous projects of fac­tion, rather than the organ of con­sis­tent and whole­some plans digested by com­mon coun­sels and mod­i­fied by mutual interests.

How­ever com­bi­na­tions or asso­ci­a­tions of the above descrip­tion may now and then answer pop­u­lar ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cun­ning, ambi­tious, and unprin­ci­pled men will be enabled to sub­vert the power of the peo­ple and to usurp for them­selves the reins of gov­ern­ment, destroy­ing after­wards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

Towards the preser­va­tion of your gov­ern­ment, and the per­ma­nency of your present happy state, it is req­ui­site, not only that you steadily dis­coun­te­nance irreg­u­lar oppo­si­tions to its acknowl­edged author­ity, but also that you resist with care the spirit of inno­va­tion upon its prin­ci­ples, how­ever spe­cious the pre­texts.  One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Con­sti­tu­tion, alter­ations which will impair the energy of the sys­tem, and thus to under­mine what can­not be directly over­thrown.  In all the changes to which you may be invited, remem­ber that time and habit are at least as nec­es­sary to fix the true char­ac­ter of gov­ern­ments as of other human insti­tu­tions; that expe­ri­ence is the surest stan­dard by which to test the real ten­dency of the exist­ing con­sti­tu­tion of a coun­try; that facil­ity in changes, upon the credit of mere hypoth­e­sis and opin­ion, exposes to per­pet­ual change, from the end­less vari­ety of hypoth­e­sis and opin­ion; and remem­ber, espe­cially, that for the effi­cient man­age­ment of your com­mon inter­ests, in a coun­try so exten­sive as ours, a gov­ern­ment of as much vigor as is con­sis­tent with the per­fect secu­rity of lib­erty is indis­pens­able. Lib­erty itself will find in such a gov­ern­ment, with pow­ers prop­erly dis­trib­uted and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, lit­tle else than a name, where the gov­ern­ment is too fee­ble to with­stand the enter­prises of fac­tion, to con­fine each mem­ber of the soci­ety within the lim­its pre­scribed by the laws, and to main­tain all in the secure and tran­quil enjoy­ment of the rights of per­son and property.

–George Wash­ing­ton

We the Peo­ple need to keep a watch­ful eye on the peo­ple we elect to office.  I think now is the time we should be lim­it­ing all offices of our fed­eral gov­ern­ment, not remov­ing the reins.  Unlim­ited terms has given the offi­cials the false sense of “right” to do what they want in Wash­ing­ton, the peo­ple be damned.  It’s about time we as a nation and a peo­ple speak up and be heard.

H/T:  Hot Air

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